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To Reflex means to bend or curve backwards or downwards.

immediately following the legitimate lead.
   If someone claims that sense of "reflex" is helpful for sorting together the articles whose topics' names reference that that sense sufficiently explicitly -- i.e., enuf that the similarity could help guide users toin finding them quicker on the the Dab page -- that demonstration could justify (instead of removing it, as i have) gutting the removed sent down into a heading for the relevant links.
--Jerzyt 00:45 & 08:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Botany

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*In botany, bent backwards like the tepals in Narcissus triandrus

esp. since the article makes no mention of the term -- nor of the fact, unless "pendulant (nodding or drooping)" constitutes that. I do suppose that if i knew the difference between a tepal and a petal, i might opine that the photo on that page illustrates the adjective. (In my first look at the photo, what caught my attention as relevant was the slight S-curvature at the top of a couple of the erect petals, and not the radical curvature of the more obscure feature that i would describe as the droopy petals.) Could an (at least amateur) botanist give us an article Reflex structure, that we could list in the "See also" section of the Dab? (I would hope it could have explanations of the evolutionary benefits of some specific examples of the phenomenon, accompanied by purpose-created photos or drawings.)
--Jerzyt 08:31, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]