2. Adjective. curving inwards ¹
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Definition of Incurving
1. incurve [v] - See also: incurve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incurving
Literary usage of Incurving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sailor's Horn-book for the Law of Storms by Henry Piddington (1860)
"I have farther said, and this may not be out of place here— " If (for the sake
of hypothesis only) we admit this incurving of the winds, it follows that ..."
2. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"She talked to him winsomely and very kindly as they crossed the open down to meet
the next incurving of the coast, and Siegmund was happy. ..."
3. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"In order to understand how the enclosure of the support by the tendril is achieved,
we must study first of all the incurving movement which takes place ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1834)
"incurving Lilac, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard tab. 7; Curled Lilac, Hort. ... A late,
very tall, and splendid plant, with large incurving, very double, ..."
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