deflexed

American  

[dih-flekst] / dɪˈflɛkst /

adjective

Biology.

1. bent abruptly downward.

2. deflected.

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deflexed British  

/ ˈdiːflɛkst, dɪˈflɛkst /

adjective

1. (of leaves, petals, etc) bent sharply outwards and downwards

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Etymology

Origin of deflexed

1820–30; < Latin dēflex ( us ) bent down ( deflection ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Reversed: turned in, an unusual or contrary direction, as upside down or inside out: said of wings when they are deflexed, the margin of secondaries projecting beyond those of primaries.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The inflorescence is a narrow pyramidal raceme of slender, spreading or deflexed spikes.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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 Taylor, Thomas

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 Rangachari, K.

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