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[ adjective ] being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
Synonyms Examples "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma" "an upside-down cake" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Other flowers we might gather as we pleased : myrtle and white_violets from beneath the lilacs ; the lilacs themselves , that bloomed so prodigally but for_the_most_part beyond our reach ; snowballs ; hollyhock blossoms that , turned upside_down , make pink petticoated ladies ; and the little , dark_blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere . Related terms |
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