inflexed

American  

[in-flekst] / ɪnˈflɛkst /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. inflected; bent or folded downward or inward.

   an inflexed leaf.

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inflexed British  

/ ɪnˈflɛkst /

adjective

1. biology curved or bent inwards and downwards towards the axis

   inflexed leaves

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Etymology

Origin of inflexed

1655–65; < Latin inflex ( us ), past participle of inflectere to bend in ( see inflect) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The first glume is oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, 3/5 inch long, acute, many-nerved, concave with inflexed margins bearing narrow green many-veined wings.

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

The pileus is bell-shaped, attached to the tip of the stem, but otherwise free from it; olive-umber in color; smooth, thin, closely pressed to the stem, but always free; the edge sometimes inflexed.

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

The first glume is about 3/8 inch, ciliate, along the inflexed margin, 7-nerved, awned; awn equal to or longer than the glume.

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

Calyx-tube wholly adnate to the ovary, the tips inflexed in bud; filaments slender, much longer than the short anthers; style barely 6-lobed at the summit, with 6 radiating thick stigmas; leaves a single pair, unspotted.

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

Bill short, strong, conic, compressed; the base slightly gaping; upper mandible inflexed; under mandible largest.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William