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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.

Definition 2024


resupinate

resupinate

English

Adjective

resupinate (comparative more resupinate, superlative most resupinate)

  1. (botany) Having the appearance of being upside down
  2. (medicine) Lying on the back, supine.

Verb

resupinate (third-person singular simple present resupinates, present participle resupinating, simple past and past participle resupinated)

  1. To supinate; to turn on the back.

Latin

Verb

resupīnāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of resupīnō