inflexedadj.
/ɪnˈflɛkst/ Bent inwards; incurved.
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combingc1503
inbenta1586
inbending1622
inflexed1661
incurvated1665
inflex1753
incurvate1776
incurved1816
rolled-in1832
introflexed1846
incurving1865
inflected1870
inwound1876
1661 O. Feltham On St. Luke xiv. 20, in 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 Universal Beauty ii. 265 Thy grand machine..There most direct where seeming most inflex'd.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 255 The tail..is furnished with an inflexed fork..usually bent under the body.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 59.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 182 The apices of the petals are often inflexed.
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