deflexed

American  

[dih-flekst] / dɪˈflɛkst /

adjective

Biology.

1. bent abruptly downward.

2. deflected.

---

deflexed British  

/ ˈdiːflɛkst, dɪˈflɛkst /

adjective

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

---

Etymology

Origin of deflexed

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

Example Sentences

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 Gray, Asa

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 Taylor, Thomas

Branches are many, short, crowded, densely clothed from the base with sessile, imbricating, much compressed deflexed spikelets.

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

The veil covers the gills of the young plant and later is seen as a collar-like ring on the stem, soft, lax, deflexed, in old specimens it is often destroyed.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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