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Definition of Deflexed
1. a. Bent abruptly downward.
Definition of Deflexed
1. Adjective. Bent downward, as branches, leaves, or hairs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deflexed
1. bent downward [adj]
Medical Definition of Deflexed
1. Bent downward or outward. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deflexed
Literary usage of Deflexed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Leaves about an inch long, Flowers blue, in terminal cymes and subterminal whorls.
The plant turns nearly black in drying. deflexed Halenia. ..."
2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Stem herbaceous, erect, ridged and furrowed, pubescent with short deflexed and
bulbous-rooted, stinging hairs, pale green or stained purple on the ridges; ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Diffuse and slender annual, a span high, minutely on short at length deflexed
peduncles : corolla white, minute : spines of the fruiting calyx as long as ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"... deflexed, silvery without, pale yellow within, fragrant, the tube broadly oval,
... deflexed ..."
5. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1830)
"... five to seven-lobed, the lobes entire, often deflexed, wavy on the surface
and margin, dark green above, paler beneath, hairy on both sides; the nerves, ..."
6. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... labellum of Broughtonia, and it has not, as far as I can discover, the peculiarly
deflexed dorsal sepal of Barkeria. Its lip, too, is distinctly ..."
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