deflexed

American  

[dih-flekst] / dɪˈflɛkst /

adjective

Biology.

1. bent abruptly downward.

2. deflected.

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deflexed British  

/ ˈdiːflɛkst, dɪˈflɛkst /

adjective

1. (of leaves, petals, etc) bent sharply outwards and downwards

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Etymology

Origin of deflexed

1820–30; < Latin dēflex ( us ) bent down ( deflection ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The veil covers the gills of the young plant and later is seen as a collar-like ring on the stem, soft, lax, deflexed, in old specimens it is often destroyed.

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

This breaks away with the growth and expansion of the plant and falls in lax folds, forming a deflexed ring round the upper portion of the stem.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Upper lip with a long beak, like an elephant's trunk; lower three-lobed, deflexed.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Flowers large, purple, in a long raceme; calyx-limb deeply parted; petals entire; stamens and style successively deflexed; stigma of 4 long lobes.

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 inflorescence is a panicle, 2 inches long and broad, somewhat triangular in outline; the rachis and the branches are stiff, slender and smooth, the lower branches are a little deflexed.

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