Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bent or turned downward or backward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bent abruptly backward: said of petals, sepals, leaf-veins, etc.
- In zoology, bent back or up; reflex.
- In heraldry, curved twice: same as
bowed , but applied especially to the chain secured to the collar of a beast, which often takes an S-curve. Alsoreflected .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bent backward or outward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reflex . - adjective
turned backwards
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of leaves) bent downward and outward more than 90 degrees
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Examples
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His trigger phrase reflexed him into a soliloquy that gave me time to think.
The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991
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The named varieties of Narcissus cyclamineus are some of the best, with reflexed petals thrown back from the trumpet.
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The revolutionary reflexed TEC riser is a very stable platform, enabling you to shoot with consistency, and the new Triax Pocket Stabilization System provides an extremely precise limb-to-riser contact point-also crucial to regular accuracy.
Compound Bow 2007
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I handed her the cold dish of very innocent ice cream, she put the spoonful o' spuds in her mouth, which was immediately proceeded by opening her mouth and letting it just fall out... into my quick reflexed hand.
"Cake" Cruelty Jen 2008
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Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among the wool.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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HIRSUTA of Linnaeus, with its spikes of reflexed hairy pods, was common; and also the MOSCHOSMA POLYSTACHYUM.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The northernmost is the Abú Gusayb (Kusayb) or Ras el-Gusayb (the “Little Reed”), a unity composed of a single block and of three knobs in a knot; the tallest of the latter, especially when viewed from the south, resembles an erect and reflexed thumb — hence our “Sharp Peak.”
The Land of Midian 2003
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There is another giant anemone (DISCOMA HADDONI) known to the blacks as “pootah-pootah,” whose inner, reflexed, convoluted edges are covered with tentacles of brown with yellow terminals.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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The tropical PEROTIS RARA, a delicate grass, producing long purple tufts of reflexed bristles, was also here observed.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Each flower is composed of a green, scaly tube, and several rows of reflexed petals, which form a shallow cup 2½ in. across.
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