deflexed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of deflexed
1820–30; < Latin dēflex ( us ) bent down ( see deflection) + -ed 2
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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
Pinnæ lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest pair deflexed and standing forward; cut into oblong, obtuse segments.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
And perhaps the most striking primula is P. Elwesiana, with large solitary deflexed purple flowers.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
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
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