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Webster 1913 Edition

Resupinate

Re-su′pi-nate

,
Adj.
[L.
resupinatus
, p. p. of
resupinare
to bend back. See
Resupine
.]
Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Webster 1828 Edition

Resupinate

RESUP'INATE

,
Adj.
[L. resupinatus, resupino; re and supino, supinus, lying on the back.]
In botany, reversed; turned upside down. A resupinate corol is when the upper lip faces the ground, and the lower lip the sky. A resupinate leaf is when the upper surface becomes the lower, and contrary; or when the lower disk looks upward.

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