Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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RESUP'INATE, adjective [Latin 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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