downflexed

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

downflexed

  1. simple past and past participle of downflex

Adjective[edit]

downflexed (comparative more downflexed, superlative most downflexed)

  1. Curved or flexed downward.
    • 1970, Donovan Stewart Correll, Marshall Conring Johnston, Manual of the vascular plants of Texas, page 421:
      Small rather open light-green widely suckering rosettes, ours only 3-4 dm. tall; leaves 3-4 dm. long, 3-4.5 cm. wide, linear-lanceolate, spreading, usually straight, the horny margins continuous, firm, sinuate; teeth 4-6 mm. long, variously curved but not generally downflexed, usually with 1 to 3 secondary teeth along the midblade
    • 1982, Henry Sackville Barlow, An introduction to the moths of South East Asia, page 202:
      The subspecies, distinguished from the typical race from N.E. Himalaya in the male genitalia where the valve is more elongate and strongly downflexed, is known from Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo.
    • 2010, Janice Daugharty, Whistle: A Novel, →ISBN:
      Same downflexed right shoe and right arm over the face.