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Definition of Inflexed
1. a. Turned; bent.
Definition of Inflexed
1. Adjective. (botany) inflected ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inflexed
1. bent inward [adj]
Medical Definition of Inflexed
1. Bent inward. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflexed
Literary usage of Inflexed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"When the apex is bent inward toward the base, as in the leaf of the Tulip Tree,
it is said to be inflexed or RECLINATE VERNATION; if doubled on the midrib ..."
2. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"Apothecia innato-sessile, at length repand: disc brown, surrounded by an inflexed
... sessile ; disc concave, reddish-brown, surrounded by an inflexed ..."
3. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1834)
"... which enters the flower by the tubular part; but that part being thickly lined
with inflexed hairs, though the fly enters easily, its return is totally ..."
4. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by William Jackson Hooker, William Borrer, James Sowerby (1834)
"... their disk red, at least when the plant has been dried; their margin entire,
or very minutely crenulate, inflexed in an early stage, ..."
5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... the mostly solitary flowers, ovate or triangular- lanceolate, about 3^ mm.
long, the margins usually inflexed: tube of the corolla exceeding the calyx, ..."
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