deflexed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of deflexed
1820–30; < Latin dēflex ( us ) bent down ( see deflection) + -ed 2
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Flowers large, purple, in a long raceme; calyx-limb deeply parted; petals entire; stamens and style successively deflexed; stigma of 4 long lobes.
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 Asa Gray
A. contortus.Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Lateral lobes: the deflexed portions of pronotum that cover the sides of pro-thorax in many Orthoptera: in certain Hymenoptera, lie on each side of the parapsidal furrows of mesoscutum and = scapulae.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Upper lip with a long beak, like an elephant's trunk; lower three-lobed, deflexed.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Ring situated about midway of the stem, deflexed and pendulous as in Amanita muscaria.Fig.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
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