Crossword-Solution: RESUPINATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Resupinate | a. | Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants. |
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| Inverted, as a flower | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAGA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RESUPINATE (5)
Amongst orchids, where the pedicel of the flower or the ovary is normally twisted, so that the labellum occupies the anterior or inferior part of the flower, it frequently happens, in cases of peloria and other changes, that the primitive position is retained, the twist does not take place, and so with other resupinate flowers.
The plants grow usually on the underside of rotten wood or bark, and then the upper side of the cap lies against the wood, and is said to be resupinate.
The pileus is one-third of an inch across, when young cup-shaped, dark cinereous, somewhat membranaceous, quite firm, resupinate, then reflexed, somewhat striate, slightly pruinose, villous at the base.
Pers._ _Variabilis, variable or changeable._ The pileus is white, thin, resupinate--that is the plant seems to be on its back, the gills being turned upward toward the light, quite downy, even, being fastened in the center to a short downy stem.
When growing under the log the upper side of the cap is against the wood and it is said to be resupinate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).