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

Flowers orange-color, thickly spotted with reddish-brown; sac longer than broad, acutely conical, tapering into a strongly inflexed spur half as long as the sac.—Rills and shady moist places; common, especially southward.

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

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

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

Stamens 5 or more; filaments with the anthers inflexed in the bud.

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 pore surface is a bright sulphur-yellow, which is more persistent than the color of the cap; pores very minute, short, often formed of inflexed masses.

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