Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bent or turned abruptly downward at a sharp angle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deflected; specifically, in zoology, bent down: as, a deflexed margin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bent abruptly downward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bent
downward , as branches, leaves, or hairs.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds.
Chapter 10 1996
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Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds.
Chapter 13 1990
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Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Pinnæ lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest pair deflexed and standing forward; cut into oblong, obtuse segments.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Branches are many, short, crowded, densely clothed from the base with sessile, imbricating, much compressed deflexed spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Cushions ½ in. apart, composed of a little tuft of white woolly hair, a cluster of erect, rather long bristles, like a small shaving-brush, and all pointing upwards; spines usually only one in each cushion, and this is slender, deflexed, white, and from
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Lateral lobes: the deflexed portions of pronotum that cover the sides of pro-thorax in many Orthoptera: in certain Hymenoptera, lie on each side of the parapsidal furrows of mesoscutum and = scapulae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Pinnæ lanceolate, pinnatifid, the lowest pairs gradually shorter and deflexed.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Epipleural: the deflexed or inflexed portions of the elytra, immediately beneath the edge: the inflexed portions of the pronotum are sometimes called prothoracic epipleura: as generally used, the term is incorrectly applied to the entire bent under margin of the elytra.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The spines are stout, all deflexed, and arranged along the edges of the numerous ribs into which the stem is divided.
whichbe commented on the word deflexed
Turned abruptly downward.
May 11, 2008