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Definition of Deflex
1. Adjective. (archery of a bow) Having the arms curved or curled at the base so as to turn towards the archer when unstrung, reducing the strain on the limbs and also the energy stored by the weapon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deflex
1. to bend down [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deflex
Literary usage of Deflex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Commentaries by Jonathan Stokes (1830)
"A seta terminated by 3 deflex aculei, as in Myosotis Lappula. Obs. 4988. A species
of hamus. Phil. bot. 109. 746. ..."
2. Amaryllidaceae: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous by William Herbert (1837)
"The perianth said to have a tendency to be bilabiate and the filaments to be
deflex point to that genus; but a sessile or subsessile germen, erect perianth, ..."
3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"D. force». In Mechanics, those forces which aet upon n moving body in such manner
as to turn it from the course which it is primarily pursuing. deflex'ed. ..."
4. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"Leaves lanceolate, revolute at the margin, the lower coriaceous, deflex.
Umbel roundish ; branches 14, ..."
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