deflexed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of deflexed
1820–30; < Latin dēflex ( us ) bent down ( see deflection) + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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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
The cap has a smooth, not polished, surface, and is very irregular, revolute, and deflexed, not honeycombed like the Morel, nor showing the brain-like convolutions of the Gyromitras.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Funkia.—Pretty liliaceous plants, with simple conspicuously longitudinal-ribbed leaves, the racemose flowers funnel-shaped and deflexed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Involucral scales few, herbaceous, nearly equal, soon deflexed beneath the globular disk.
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
Stamens 8, distinct; anthers with a pair of deflexed appendages on the back, the cells opening each by a long chink.
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
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