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resupinate, a.|rɪˈs(j)uːpɪneɪt|
[ad. L. resupīnāt-um, pa. pple. of resupīnāre to bend back. Cf. F. résupiné, Sp. and Pg. resupinado.]
1. Chiefly Bot. Turned or twisted upwards.
1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 382 Resupinate, when the lower Disk of the Leaf looks upwards. 1815E. J. Burrow Conchol. 16 Resupinata, resupinate; turned upwards. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 240 The æstivation of the corolla..is an important consideration in determining whether a flower is resupinate or not. 188419th Cent. Feb. 243 The leaves are long.., having sharp-pointed blades, barbed sides, and resupinate bark.
2. (See quot.)
1836Rafinesque Amer. Nations I. ii. 66 The Resupinate or Reflexed Group [of American languages]: where the roots or nouns substantive are reversed, following the adjectives or epithetes, which are prefixed.
So reˈsupinated ppl. a.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge, Their mouth is downwards, that the fishes might escape, when they are resupinated. 1752Hill Hist. Anim. 584 The Bos, with very large, crooked and resupinated horns, the Buffaloe. |