willowy

able to bend easily without breaking the rattan's stems are split into willowy staves that are woven together to produce exquisite baskets Synonyms bendy [chiefly British], flexible, limber, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple Related Words adaptable, ductile, elastic, fluid, kneadable, malleable, modifiable, plastic, variable, yielding; droopy, flaccid, floppy, limp; semiflexible Near Antonyms inelastic, nonmalleable, unyielding; breakable, brittle, fragile Antonyms inflexible, rigid, stiff, stiffened