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 ( inflect ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

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.

The pileus is membranaceous, at first top-shaped, expanded, slightly umbilicate, striate, margin inclined to be inflexed, yellow or tawny, with a dusky center, minutely pilose.

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

Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.

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

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

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