reversedadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈvəːst/, U.S.

/rəˈvərst/,

/riˈvərst/

Forms: see reverse v.¹ and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reverse v.¹, -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < reverse v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. Compare similar uses in French of reversé , use as adjective of past participle of reverser reverse v.¹ (early 14th cent. or earlier). Compare reverse adj.

1. That is or has been reversed (in various senses).

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the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > turned the reverse or wrong way

reversedc1390

awkwarda1522

reverteda1616

renversa1652

retroverted1735

retroverse1841

the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > opposite or opposed

turneda1325

reversedc1390

contrary1413

opposeda1500

oppositea1513

inverted1563

counter1596

diametrical1613

contraposed1620

oppositive1622

averse1623

diagonial1624

contrarying1628

diametrala1631

conversive1636

Antipodian1640

converted1640

exadverse1647

Antarctic1651

Antipodean1651

antipodal1664

in reverse1694

contradictory1736

converse1794

antithesistic1801

contravening1802

diametric1802

reverse1828

polar1832

antipodist1844

antithetic1864

other-sided1879

antipodic1881

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > reversed or inverted

versy1572

reversed1669

invertant1688

subvertant1688

subverted1688

renversé1725

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 336 (MED) Heore [sc. women's] Reuersede gydðs On hem are streyt drawe.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 98 ^v Marching eft to open Sea as streight as any string, Indenteth with reuersed streame.

1594 I. G. tr. G. di Grassi True Arte Def. sig. Ii^v To discharge a thrust at the enimies thigh, the which withstandeth the fall of the reuersed blowe.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. viii. 35 (margin) Reuersed Coats for Treason.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 34 The darts not lighting in iest on their naked necks, and reuersed faces.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. ii. 52 By the side thereof must be placed the Reversed six Northern Signs.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Madder Underneath the floor should be a reversed pyramid, somewhat obtuse at bottom.

1799 Naval Chron. 1 342 She hoisted a reversed ensign as a signal of distress.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 242 Footguards with reversed arms escorted the hearse.

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. iv. 188 The southwest monsoons..are reversed Trades.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 95 Plates that are liable to fog..as a rule give reversed images with comparatively short exposures.

1909 H. Zimmern tr. R. de Cesare Last Days of Papal Rome xviii. 253 They wore in their cravats a pin in the form of a reversed cross, the Cross of St. Peter.

1928 H. M. Paull Lit. Ethics xvii. 189 He may..disguise it [sc. his name] in various ways, using initials, asterisks, a reversed name, or one of the opposite sex.

1979 A. L. Lydersen Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer vii. 200 Hyperfiltration or reversed osmosis is carried out with pressures from 40 to 60 bar.

1995 Independent 2 Dec. 5/4 When Leeson was reeled back in to Singapore it was the arrogant Nick—broad grin under the reversed baseball cap—that reappeared.

†2. Heraldry. As postmodifier. Of a cross: = sarcelly adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [adjective] > recurred cross moline

reversed1486

sarcellyc1500

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cv^v He beris asure with a cros reuersit of golde.

1682 J. Gibbon Introd. ad Latinam Blasoniam 141 In English he calls it a Cross reversed, which Leigh terms Sarcelé.

3. Botany. Of flowers or leaves: inverted. Cf. resupinate adj. 1. Now rare.See also reversed clover n., reversed trefoil n.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > turned inwards, upwards, backwards, etc.

reflexeda1500

resupinated1661

nutant1751

nodding1776

resupinate1776

reversed1777

deflex1791

retrorse1818

deflexed1826

deflected1828

fornicate1828

invaginated1835

antrorse1838

invertile1853

posterial1866

retrorsal1870

invaginate1887

invaginable1888

1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 428 At other times they are pinnated half-way down to the rib, with triangular reversed pinnæ.

1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. iii. 55 They [sc. leaves] are said to be..resupinate or reversed—when the surface, which is commonly undermost, is found uppermost, as in the spotted-flowered alstrœmeria and white water-lily.

1850 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. II. 605/2 Reversed, in Bot., resupinate; having the upper lip larger and more expanded than the lower; as, a reversed corol.—Reversed leaves, such as have the lower surface turned upwards.

1911 W. P. Wright Illustr. Encycl. Gardening 253 Peristrophe (..from peristrophe, turning round, in allusion to the reversed corolla).

4. Zoology. Of an asymmetrical animal (as a snail, flatfish, etc.): having the opposite to the usual direction of coil or arrangement of parts with respect to left and right.

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1800 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Shells II. Pl. LXXII Reversed shells of the common garden snail have been found, though very rarely.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 238 Reversed Turbots..that is, Turbots having the eyes and dark colour on the right side instead of the left, are also occasionally brought to market.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 133 An old-fashioned English conchologist's delight in a reversed shell.

1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 3 In the Flounder, reversed specimens are not uncommon.

1956 Jrnl. Paleontol. 30 1261/1 The shell of S. saratogensis may be described as appearing superficially like a reversed shell of Physa gyrina.

2004 Copeia No. 3. 583/1 This specimen might not be a new taxon, but rather it could be a reversed specimen of a species of the sinistral genus Etropus.

Compounds

reversed charge adj. (and adv.) now chiefly British = reverse charge adj. (and adv.).

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1921 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Mar. 1/1 Collect or reversed charge calls are not accepted at the station-to-station rate.

1969 Times 8 May 18/3 (advt.) Girl wanted to help in our hotel... Ring reversed charge: MacDonald, Ballachulish 252.

1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 July All have..reversed charge facilities for people calling from abroad.

2003 J. Guénault in D. Hill & C. Jones Forms of Ethical Thinking in Therapeutic Pract. iii. 36 Whether to allow acceptance of reversed charge calls.

reversed clover n. a small Mediterranean clover, Trifolium resupinatum, with purplish flowers becoming resupinate in fruit.

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1858 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora 120 Reversed Clover. Trifolium resupinatum, Linn.... Corolla small, pink, the standard turned outwards instead of inwards as in other Clovers.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 257/2 Trifolium resupinatum, Reversed Clover.

1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 139 In some species the wind may help with dispersal... In reversed Clover the calyx becomes much inflated completely enclosing the fruit, and again serves to make it light, and present a large surface to the wind.

reversed fault n. = reverse fault n. at reverse adj. and adv. Compounds 2.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > other types of fault

heave1802

reversed fault1852

reverse fault1865

step-fault1879

ring fracture1881

overfault1883

overlap fault1883

overthrust1883

trough fault1883

thrust1888

thrust-fault1889

offset1897

cross-fault1900

tear-fault1900

distributive fault1904

cross-break1909

slide1910

strike-slip fault1913

rift1921

splay fault1942

wrench fault1951

megashear1954

transform fault1965

transform1971

1852 H. M. De la Condamine in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 8 193 (title) On a reversed fault at Lewisham.

1929 M. H. Haddock Disrupted Strata iii. 36 In the common type of fault,..the striking angle θ will give a normal fault when obtuse and backthrust is present, or when acute and forethrust is present; the reversal of these remarks holds for reversed faults on the same fault plane.

1983 Acta Geophysica Polonica 30 216 The fault plane solution corresponds to a dip-slip fault motion with considerable strike component on a reversed fault.

reversed phase adj. Chemistry designating a type of liquid chromatography in which the stationary phase is non-polar and the moving phase is a polar solvent, causing molecules to migrate in order of polarity, with the most polar migrating fastest; (also) relating to or involving this.

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1950 G. A. Howard & A. J. P. Martin in Biochem. Jrnl. 46 532 (title) The separation of the C₁₂-C₁₈ fatty acids by reversed-phase partition chromatography.

1980 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77 735/2 The pure compound was isolated by medium-pressure liquid chromatography on a reversed-phase column.

2005 J. H. Beijnen & H. Rosing in J. H. M. Schellens et al. Cancer Clin. Pharmacol. i. 3 There are many types of chromatography... Reversed phase chromatography is most frequently employed.

reversed polarity n. Grammar (with reference to a question tag) the property of being negative when the preceding clause is positive (e.g. this is good, isn't it?), or vice versa (e.g. this isn't any good, is it?); frequently attributive.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > use of interrogative > types of question

x-question1924

tag question1933

reversed polarity1957

wh-question1957

1957 D. L. Bolinger in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 113 The speaker courteously anticipates a possibly negative answer. This is perhaps related to the original sense of reversed-polarity conduciveness.

1975 Language 51 26 What is the relation between constant polarity tags and reversed-polarity tags?.. The tags below both have reversed polarity:..a. Caterpillars have legs, don't they? b. Caterpillars don't have legs, do they?

2002 L. Anderwald Negation in Non-standard Brit. Eng. ii. 15 A sentence like He is unhappy requires a negative tag in a reversed polarity question, e.g. He is unhappy, isn't he?

reversed talon n. Architecture = cyma recta at cyma n. 1.

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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Talon The Talon consists of two Portions of a Circle, one without, and the other within; and when the Concave Part is uppermost, it is called Reversed Talon.

1824 tr. L. B. Francœur Lineal Drawing Monitor's Tablets v Draw a reversed talon with its filets.

1987 D. Hunt tr. C. Enlart Gothic Art & Renaissance in Cyprus x. 233 The door frame is carved with a strong combination of mouldings which disappear into a base with a reversed talon.

reversed tracery n. Architecture rare tracery which appears to run downwards from top to centre.

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1847 E. A. Freeman in Ecclesiologist 8 37 Reversed Tracery, in which the piercings seem to hang down from the top towards the centre.

1980 J. Summerson Life & Work John Nash iv. 47 There was a cornice of tiny groins connecting at each springing with wall-ribs descending to the dado and terminating in reversed tracery.

reversed trefoil n. now rare = reversed clover n.

ΚΠ

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 271 Reversed or Salamanca Trefoil. Heads of flowers roundish; flowers reversed.

1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 169 T. resupinátum (Reversed Trefoil).—Heads of flowers at first hemispherical, gradually becoming round, stalked; corollas inverted from the ordinary position.

1901 E. D. Marquand Flora Guernsey 78 Trifolium resupinatum... Reversed Trefoil.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	reversed
释义	reversedadj. Brit. /rᵻˈvəːst/, U.S. /rəˈvərst/, /riˈvərst/ Forms: see reverse v.¹ and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reverse v.¹, -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < reverse v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. Compare similar uses in French of reversé , use as adjective of past participle of reverser reverse v.¹ (early 14th cent. or earlier). Compare reverse adj. 1. That is or has been reversed (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > turned the reverse or wrong way reversedc1390 awkwarda1522 reverteda1616 renversa1652 retroverted1735 retroverse1841 the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > opposite or opposed turneda1325 reversedc1390 contrary1413 opposeda1500 oppositea1513 inverted1563 counter1596 diametrical1613 contraposed1620 oppositive1622 averse1623 diagonial1624 contrarying1628 diametrala1631 conversive1636 Antipodian1640 converted1640 exadverse1647 Antarctic1651 Antipodean1651 antipodal1664 in reverse1694 contradictory1736 converse1794 antithesistic1801 contravening1802 diametric1802 reverse1828 polar1832 antipodist1844 antithetic1864 other-sided1879 antipodic1881 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > reversed or inverted versy1572 reversed1669 invertant1688 subvertant1688 subverted1688 renversé1725 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 336 (MED) Heore [sc. women's] Reuersede gydðs On hem are streyt drawe. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 98 ^v Marching eft to open Sea as streight as any string, Indenteth with reuersed streame. 1594 I. G. tr. G. di Grassi True Arte Def. sig. Ii^v To discharge a thrust at the enimies thigh, the which withstandeth the fall of the reuersed blowe. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. viii. 35 (margin) Reuersed Coats for Treason. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 34 The darts not lighting in iest on their naked necks, and reuersed faces. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. ii. 52 By the side thereof must be placed the Reversed six Northern Signs. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Madder Underneath the floor should be a reversed pyramid, somewhat obtuse at bottom. 1799 Naval Chron. 1 342 She hoisted a reversed ensign as a signal of distress. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 242 Footguards with reversed arms escorted the hearse. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. iv. 188 The southwest monsoons..are reversed Trades. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 95 Plates that are liable to fog..as a rule give reversed images with comparatively short exposures. 1909 H. Zimmern tr. R. de Cesare Last Days of Papal Rome xviii. 253 They wore in their cravats a pin in the form of a reversed cross, the Cross of St. Peter. 1928 H. M. Paull Lit. Ethics xvii. 189 He may..disguise it [sc. his name] in various ways, using initials, asterisks, a reversed name, or one of the opposite sex. 1979 A. L. Lydersen Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer vii. 200 Hyperfiltration or reversed osmosis is carried out with pressures from 40 to 60 bar. 1995 Independent 2 Dec. 5/4 When Leeson was reeled back in to Singapore it was the arrogant Nick—broad grin under the reversed baseball cap—that reappeared. †2. Heraldry. As postmodifier. Of a cross: = sarcelly adj. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [adjective] > recurred cross moline reversed1486 sarcellyc1500 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cv^v He beris asure with a cros reuersit of golde. 1682 J. Gibbon Introd. ad Latinam Blasoniam 141 In English he calls it a Cross reversed, which Leigh terms Sarcelé. 3. Botany. Of flowers or leaves: inverted. Cf. resupinate adj. 1. Now rare.See also reversed clover n., reversed trefoil n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > turned inwards, upwards, backwards, etc. reflexeda1500 resupinated1661 nutant1751 nodding1776 resupinate1776 reversed1777 deflex1791 retrorse1818 deflexed1826 deflected1828 fornicate1828 invaginated1835 antrorse1838 invertile1853 posterial1866 retrorsal1870 invaginate1887 invaginable1888 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 428 At other times they are pinnated half-way down to the rib, with triangular reversed pinnæ. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. iii. 55 They [sc. leaves] are said to be..resupinate or reversed—when the surface, which is commonly undermost, is found uppermost, as in the spotted-flowered alstrœmeria and white water-lily. 1850 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. II. 605/2 Reversed, in Bot., resupinate; having the upper lip larger and more expanded than the lower; as, a reversed corol.—Reversed leaves, such as have the lower surface turned upwards. 1911 W. P. Wright Illustr. Encycl. Gardening 253 Peristrophe (..from peristrophe, turning round, in allusion to the reversed corolla). 4. Zoology. Of an asymmetrical animal (as a snail, flatfish, etc.): having the opposite to the usual direction of coil or arrangement of parts with respect to left and right. ΚΠ 1800 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Shells II. Pl. LXXII Reversed shells of the common garden snail have been found, though very rarely. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 238 Reversed Turbots..that is, Turbots having the eyes and dark colour on the right side instead of the left, are also occasionally brought to market. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 133 An old-fashioned English conchologist's delight in a reversed shell. 1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 3 In the Flounder, reversed specimens are not uncommon. 1956 Jrnl. Paleontol. 30 1261/1 The shell of S. saratogensis may be described as appearing superficially like a reversed shell of Physa gyrina. 2004 Copeia No. 3. 583/1 This specimen might not be a new taxon, but rather it could be a reversed specimen of a species of the sinistral genus Etropus. Compounds reversed charge adj. (and adv.) now chiefly British = reverse charge adj. (and adv.). ΚΠ 1921 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Mar. 1/1 Collect or reversed charge calls are not accepted at the station-to-station rate. 1969 Times 8 May 18/3 (advt.) Girl wanted to help in our hotel... Ring reversed charge: MacDonald, Ballachulish 252. 1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 July All have..reversed charge facilities for people calling from abroad. 2003 J. Guénault in D. Hill & C. Jones Forms of Ethical Thinking in Therapeutic Pract. iii. 36 Whether to allow acceptance of reversed charge calls. reversed clover n. a small Mediterranean clover, Trifolium resupinatum, with purplish flowers becoming resupinate in fruit. ΚΠ 1858 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora 120 Reversed Clover. Trifolium resupinatum, Linn.... Corolla small, pink, the standard turned outwards instead of inwards as in other Clovers. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 257/2 Trifolium resupinatum, Reversed Clover. 1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 139 In some species the wind may help with dispersal... In reversed Clover the calyx becomes much inflated completely enclosing the fruit, and again serves to make it light, and present a large surface to the wind. reversed fault n. = reverse fault n. at reverse adj. and adv. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > other types of fault heave1802 reversed fault1852 reverse fault1865 step-fault1879 ring fracture1881 overfault1883 overlap fault1883 overthrust1883 trough fault1883 thrust1888 thrust-fault1889 offset1897 cross-fault1900 tear-fault1900 distributive fault1904 cross-break1909 slide1910 strike-slip fault1913 rift1921 splay fault1942 wrench fault1951 megashear1954 transform fault1965 transform1971 1852 H. M. De la Condamine in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 8 193 (title) On a reversed fault at Lewisham. 1929 M. H. Haddock Disrupted Strata iii. 36 In the common type of fault,..the striking angle θ will give a normal fault when obtuse and backthrust is present, or when acute and forethrust is present; the reversal of these remarks holds for reversed faults on the same fault plane. 1983 Acta Geophysica Polonica 30 216 The fault plane solution corresponds to a dip-slip fault motion with considerable strike component on a reversed fault. reversed phase adj. Chemistry designating a type of liquid chromatography in which the stationary phase is non-polar and the moving phase is a polar solvent, causing molecules to migrate in order of polarity, with the most polar migrating fastest; (also) relating to or involving this. ΚΠ 1950 G. A. Howard & A. J. P. Martin in Biochem. Jrnl. 46 532 (title) The separation of the C₁₂-C₁₈ fatty acids by reversed-phase partition chromatography. 1980 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77 735/2 The pure compound was isolated by medium-pressure liquid chromatography on a reversed-phase column. 2005 J. H. Beijnen & H. Rosing in J. H. M. Schellens et al. Cancer Clin. Pharmacol. i. 3 There are many types of chromatography... Reversed phase chromatography is most frequently employed. reversed polarity n. Grammar (with reference to a question tag) the property of being negative when the preceding clause is positive (e.g. this is good, isn't it?), or vice versa (e.g. this isn't any good, is it?); frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > use of interrogative > types of question x-question1924 tag question1933 reversed polarity1957 wh-question1957 1957 D. L. Bolinger in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 113 The speaker courteously anticipates a possibly negative answer. This is perhaps related to the original sense of reversed-polarity conduciveness. 1975 Language 51 26 What is the relation between constant polarity tags and reversed-polarity tags?.. The tags below both have reversed polarity:..a. Caterpillars have legs, don't they? b. Caterpillars don't have legs, do they? 2002 L. Anderwald Negation in Non-standard Brit. Eng. ii. 15 A sentence like He is unhappy requires a negative tag in a reversed polarity question, e.g. He is unhappy, isn't he? reversed talon n. Architecture = cyma recta at cyma n. 1. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Talon The Talon consists of two Portions of a Circle, one without, and the other within; and when the Concave Part is uppermost, it is called Reversed Talon. 1824 tr. L. B. Francœur Lineal Drawing Monitor's Tablets v Draw a reversed talon with its filets. 1987 D. Hunt tr. C. Enlart Gothic Art & Renaissance in Cyprus x. 233 The door frame is carved with a strong combination of mouldings which disappear into a base with a reversed talon. reversed tracery n. Architecture rare tracery which appears to run downwards from top to centre. ΚΠ 1847 E. A. Freeman in Ecclesiologist 8 37 Reversed Tracery, in which the piercings seem to hang down from the top towards the centre. 1980 J. Summerson Life & Work John Nash iv. 47 There was a cornice of tiny groins connecting at each springing with wall-ribs descending to the dado and terminating in reversed tracery. reversed trefoil n. now rare = reversed clover n. ΚΠ 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 271 Reversed or Salamanca Trefoil. Heads of flowers roundish; flowers reversed. 1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 169 T. resupinátum (Reversed Trefoil).—Heads of flowers at first hemispherical, gradually becoming round, stalked; corollas inverted from the ordinary position. 1901 E. D. Marquand Flora Guernsey 78 Trifolium resupinatum... Reversed Trefoil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1390
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