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downflexed

downflexed is the simple past and past participle of downflex.

Meaning of downflex

Verb

downflex (third-person singular simple present downflexes, present participle downflexing, simple past and past participle downflexed)

  1. (transitive) To force downward without breaking.
    • Second, the unusually thick (2 to 5 km, Berry and Barr, 1971; Hall, 1973; Grantz et al., 1979) sediment cover in Canada Basin may serve to downflex the underlying oceanic crust and produce a greater than normal state of stress across the adjacent margin which is presently coupled to the seafloor...1982, R. A. Scrutton, Dynamics of Passive Margins, →ISBN, page 22
  2. (intransitive) To bend or stretch downward.
    • The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.1967, Institute for Oceanography, Collected Reprints-national Ocean Survey, page 305

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Adjective

downflexed (comparative more downflexed, superlative most downflexed)

  1. Curved or flexed downward.
    • 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...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

Forms of downflexed

comparativemore downflexed
superlativemost downflexed

Questions about downflexed

What does downflexed mean?
Downflexed means curved or flexed downward.
What is downflexed the simple past and past participle of?
Downflexed is the simple past and past participle of downflex.
What part of speech is downflexed?
Downflexed is an adjective.

Words near downflexed in the dictionary

  1. downfeather
  2. downfeathers
  3. downfell
  4. downfield
  5. downflex
  6. downflexed
  7. downflexes
  8. downflexing
  9. downflexings
  10. downflood
  11. downflooded

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