Deflexed meaning

dĭ-flĕkst', dē'flĕkst'
Bent or turned abruptly downward at a sharp angle.

Deflexed petals.

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Bent downward, as branches, leaves, or hairs.
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Bent downward, as branches, leaves, or hairs.
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Origin of deflexed

  • From Latin dēflexus past participle of dēflectere to bend deflect
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Deflexed Sentence Examples

  • apart, and the smaller shoots are trained between them, either on both sides, as at a, or deflexed from the lower side, as at b.

  • Pretty liliaceous plants, with simple conspicuously longitudinal-ribbed leaves, the racemose flowers funnel-shaped and deflexed.

  • long, including the stalk; it is characterized by having the lower pinnae of the frond deflexed; it is generally distributed in Britain, though not common.

  • high, bearing a dozen or more large deflexed, funnelshaped, white, purple-stained flowers; L.

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