deflexed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of deflexed
1820–30; < Latin dēflex ( us ) bent down ( see deflection) + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Lateral sepals deflexed; upper and two petals coherent.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Corolla.—Bilabiate; upper lip arched, entire; lower three-lobed; deflexed.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Perennial; stems smooth, erect; leaves 8 or sometimes 6 in the whorls, linear, roughish, soon deflexed; flowers very numerous, paniculate, yellow; fruit usually smooth.—Dry fields, E. Mass.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Stegopterous, ste-gop′te-rus, adj. roof-winged, keeping the wings deflexed when at rest.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Plant small, rather tall; leaves comparatively narrow, nearly straight, a little deflexed at the extremity, and slightly wavy at the border; head of medium size, quickly formed, but remaining firm but a short time.
From The Cauliflower by Crozier, A. A. (Arthur Alger)
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