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(heraldry)Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines, especially to symbolize a river.
1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 708:
Per pale erm. and az. a fess wavy gu.
1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 105:
Parted per fess wavy gu. and arg.; over all a lion passant sa. pierced with a dagger ppr., hafted and pommelled of the second, the haft appearing between the shoulders and the point under the belly, tending towards the hind legs[…]
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Japanese: くねくねした(kunekune shita), ウエーブのかかった(uēbu no kakatta)
1862, The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, volume 20, page 7835:
According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
1888, Journals of the Senate of Canada, volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.
