inflexure

English

Noun

inflexure (plural inflexures)

  1. An inflection; a bend or fold.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus
      the contrivance of nature is singular in the opening and shutting of bindweeds performed by five inflexures, distinguishable by pyramidal figures, and also different colours.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inflexure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Participle

īnflexūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of īnflexūrus
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