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Definition of Reflexed
1. Adjective. (of leaves) bent downward and outward more than 90 degrees.
Definition of Reflexed
1. a. Bent backward or outward.
Definition of Reflexed
1. Verb. (past of reflex) ¹
2. Adjective. turned backwards ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reflexed
1. reflex [v] - See also: reflex
Medical Definition of Reflexed
1. Bent sharply downwards or backwards. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflexed
Literary usage of Reflexed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Scienceedited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1868)
"Median small, reflexed, extremity articulating with a narrow tooth, the other
end of which is connected »¡ili a strong tricuspid tooth, and flanked by three ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... narrowly bordered and lower margin slightly reflexed, serrato pyrit'orm, ...
the lower margin reflexed : flowers rarely bisexual : capsule horizontal or ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"fls. yellow, spotted with reddish brown; sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate,
acute, reflexed; labellum spreading, broad-clawed, 3-lobed, ..."
4. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1856)
"Perfection, Standish; pure white, with blush-pink corolla; well reflexed; ...
Mrs. Story, Story; scarlet tube and sepals, well reflexed, corolla white ..."
5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1868)
"Median small, reflexed, extremity articulating with a narrow tooth, the other
end of which is connected with a strong tricuspid tooth, and flanked by three ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Stamens 10, on the base of the corolla, filaments short dilated below ; anthers
deflexed, ovoid, opening by 2 pores, awns 2 reflexed. Disk annular. ..."
7. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1872)
"1st lateral with slightly rounded claw, edges partially reflexed and ... Laterals,
edges reflexed, denticulated. Specimen in cabinet of EMS Cerithium (? ..."
8. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... short and erect, or long, creeping and decumbent with short erect flowering
branchlets. Leaves equal except at the base of the innovations, reflexed or ..."
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