deflexed
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How to use deflexed in a sentence
The lowest pair of pinn stand forward and are conspicuously deflexed, giving an easy clew to the plant's identity.
How to Know the Ferns | Frances Theodora ParsonsStegopterous, ste-gop′te-rus, adj. roof-winged, keeping the wings deflexed when at rest.
The flowers are white or pinkish, becoming brown and deflexed as the corolla fades.
Involucral scales few, herbaceous, nearly equal, soon deflexed beneath the globular disk.
Stamens 8, distinct; anthers with a pair of deflexed appendages on the back, the cells opening each by a long chink.
British Dictionary definitions for deflexed
/ (dɪˈflɛkst, ˈdiːflɛkst) /
(of leaves, petals, etc) bent sharply outwards and downwards
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