deflexed, ppl. a. Zool. and Bot.
(dɪˈflɛkst)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Bent downwards; deflected.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvii. (1828) IV. 386 The organs of flight are deflexed and do not lap over each other. 1845 Lindley Sch. Bot. iv. (1858) 41 Stem rough with deflexed bristles. 1871 Staveley Brit. Insects 127 Such insects as have the wings, when at rest, deflexed—lying over the body like a shelving roof. 1877–84 F. E. Hulme Wild Fl. p. vi, Pedicels bearing fruit deflexed. |