resupinate

American  

[ri-soo-puh-neyt, -nit] / rɪˈsu pəˌneɪt, -nɪt /

adjective

1. bent backward.

2. Botany. inverted; appearing as if upside down.

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resupinate British  

/ rɪˈsjuːpɪnɪt /

adjective

1. botany (of plant parts, esp the flowers of many orchids) reversed or inverted in position, so as to appear to be upside down

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Other Word Forms

• resupination noun

Etymology

Origin of resupinate

1770–80; < Latin resupīnātus bent backward, turned back (past participle of resupīnāre ), equivalent to re- re- + supīn- ( see supine) + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

This genus grows on wood, at first resupinate, expanded; the hymenophore springing from a mucous mycelium.

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

Youth had recoiled or found itself resupinate from a collision with this single word.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Lignatile, resupinate, hymenium soft and waxy, covered with folds or wrinkles, edges entire or corrugated.

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

The plants grow usually on the underside of rotten wood or bark, and then the upper side of the cap lies against the wood, and is said to be resupinate.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The pileus is rigid, coriaceous, resupinate, effused, reflexed, the lower margin generally adhering firmly, somewhat fasciated; velvety, rubiginous or rusty in color, then becoming smooth and bright brown, the intermediate stratum tawny-ferruginous.

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