inflexed, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈflɛkst)
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
Bent inwards; incurved.
| 1661 Feltham Disc. Luke xiv. 20 Wks. (1677) 361 Davids right-heartedness became inflex'd and crooked. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 69 Suffice it to provide a brazen tube Inflext. 1735 H. Brooke Univ. Beauty ii. 265 Thy grand machine..There most direct where seeming most inflex'd. 1816 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) II. 255 The tail..is furnished with an inflexed fork..usually bent under the body. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 59. 1872 Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 182 The apices of the petals are often inflexed. |