downflexed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of downflex

comparative more downflexed · superlative most downflexed

1. Curved or flexed downward.

   Same downflexed right shoe and right arm over the face.

   2010, Janice Daugharty, Whistle: A Novel, →ISBN

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   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

   1970, Donovan Stewart Correll, Marshall Conring Johnston, Manual of the vascular plants of Texas, page 421

   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.

   1982, Henry Sackville Barlow, An introduction to the moths of South East Asia, page 202