"flexatube" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From flexible tube.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flexatubes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "flexatube (plural flexatubes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Scientific American - Volume 198, page 126:",
          "text": "At least two other completely different methods of turning the flexatube inside out are known, and both are as devious and difficult to discover as this one.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Theoni Pappas, More Joy of Mathematics: Exploring Mathematics All Around You:",
          "text": "In the course of studying flexagons, Stone invented some fascinating objects, one of which was the tetra flexatube.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mental math challenges, →ISBN, page 22:",
          "text": "To create a different color for the inside of the flexatube: If using cardboard, glue two different colors together, back to back, before cutting squares into quarters",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A folded paper puzzle created by connecting the ends of a strip of four squares, each folded along 45-degree diagonals. The solver is challenged to turn the structure inside out using only foldings."
      ],
      "id": "en-flexatube-en-noun-5TSSlu82",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "flexagon"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flexatube"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From flexible tube.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flexatubes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flexatube (plural flexatubes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "flexagon"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Scientific American - Volume 198, page 126:",
          "text": "At least two other completely different methods of turning the flexatube inside out are known, and both are as devious and difficult to discover as this one.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Theoni Pappas, More Joy of Mathematics: Exploring Mathematics All Around You:",
          "text": "In the course of studying flexagons, Stone invented some fascinating objects, one of which was the tetra flexatube.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mental math challenges, →ISBN, page 22:",
          "text": "To create a different color for the inside of the flexatube: If using cardboard, glue two different colors together, back to back, before cutting squares into quarters",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A folded paper puzzle created by connecting the ends of a strip of four squares, each folded along 45-degree diagonals. The solver is challenged to turn the structure inside out using only foldings."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flexatube"
}