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 second glume is oblong-lanceolate, acute, margins thin and membranous, inflexed, ciliate above the middle, 3-nerved.

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

The pileus is fuliginous, cinereous, flesh compact, margin even and inflexed, depressed in the center.

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

The third glume is oblong or elliptic-oblong, rigid with a hyaline centre and coriaceous at the sides, 3-nerved, paleate and with three stamens; palea is as long as the glume, coriaceous with inflexed hyaline margins.

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

Pod 1-celled, neither suture being inflexed or the ventral more intruded than the dorsal.—Phaca.

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

Stamens 5, included; filaments slender; anthers arrow-shaped, with an inflexed tip.

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