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

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 pileus is bell-shaped, attached to the tip of the stem, but otherwise free from it; olive-umber in color; smooth, thin, closely pressed to the stem, but always free; the edge sometimes inflexed.

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

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

The pileus is white, or whitish, fleshy, somewhat fibrous, fragile, triangular in form, pubescent, azonate, margin somewhat inflexed, acute.

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

Pileus two to three inches broad, orbicular, somewhat depressed, white, covered with a dense mat of hair; margin inflexed and marked by triangular ridges.

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