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reflexed

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[ri-flekst, ree-flekst] / rɪˈflɛkst, ˈri flɛkst /

adjective

  1. bent backward or downward, as a leaf.


Etymology

Origin of reflexed

1350–1400; Middle English: reflected; see reflex, -ed 2


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They have nodding flowers, two or more to a stem, and petals that are reflexed slightly.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

The oddest variety, and also a top scorer, was Snow Cone, whose white, deeply reflexed blooms are small for a coneflower, but massed in a profusion that masks the foliage.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2021

Because I came back negative, it reflexed to COVID-19.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2020

He reflexed back two huge putaway shots, one an overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2015

Calyx-tube slightly prolonged, the end filled by a cup-shaped disk, deciduous; lobes 2, reflexed.

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 Asa Gray

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