Chiefly Botany and Heraldry. Esp. of a part of a plant (or animal): bent, turned, looped, or folded back; recurved; = reflected, adj. 2. Cf. reflex…

Inverted; = resupinate, adj. 1.

Nodding; pendulous.

Chiefly Botany. Esp. of an inflorescence: bent or curved downward; pendulous.

Chiefly Botany and Mycology. Inverted; spec. (a) (of a flower, esp. an orchid) turned upside down or apparently so by a twist of the stalk or…

Botany. Of flowers or leaves: inverted. Cf. resupinate, adj. 1. Now rare.

= deflexed, adj.

Turned or pointing backwards, or in a direction opposed to that expected; = reverted, adj. 2.

Bent downwards; deflected.

Zoology and Botany. Bent or curved downwards; = deflexed, adj.

= fornicated, adj.; spec. in Botany, Conchology, and Entomology.

(a) Inserted or received into a sheath; sheathed. (b) Turned into a sheath. (c) Introverted.

Turned or pointing forwards, upwards, or towards an axis. Contrasted with retrorse.

That can turn itself inside out or be turned inside out; invertible.

In technical contexts: turned towards the back or the rear side; directed towards the posterior. Also simply: = posterior, adj. 2a.

= retrorse, adj.

invaginated, adj.

Susceptible of invagination.