Significats de become inflected en anglès

When cut-off leaves are immersed in water, they alone often become inflected.

We shall hereafter see that cut off leaves immersed in diluted alcohol of the above strength do not become inflected.

This was likewise the case with the short tentacles round the margins of the disc, which had not as yet become inflected.

All seven leaves became inflected, but only very moderately, in the course of a day.

They all soon became inflected; after 48 hrs.

Nevertheless, when bits of meat were placed on two of them, the outer tentacles became inflected.

20 m. some of the tentacles on one side became inflected.

It was again brushed, and now in 9 m. a few tentacles became inflected; the failure therefore was not complete.

After 36 m. several of them on one leaf became inflected, and after 1 hr.

* After a few hours all the tentacles and the blade became inflected.

Touch a gland once or twice, and no movement follows; touch it three or four times, and the tentacle becomes inflected.

As it was immediately evident that these fluids produced a great effect, I neglected in most cases to record how soon the tentacles became inflected.

When the pedicel of a tentacle is cut off by a sharp pair of scissors quite close beneath the gland, the tentacle generally becomes inflected.

I therefore cut the glands off twenty-five tentacles, at different times and on different leaves, and seventeen of these soon became inflected, and afterwards re-expanded.