Lexicographical Neighbors of Decurves
Literary usage of Decurves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"The depressed snout decurves the regurgitated stream, which strikes the upper
valve only, hence a lower valve is not necessary, the edge of the upper valve ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"For a short distance exterior to the superior angle it is subhorizontal ; it then
gradually decurves, and is then entirely flat to the inferior subacute ..."
3. The Science Record edited by Alfred Ely Beach (1875)
"... they are so short, dense, and compact, as to form a decurveS pubescence, which
is perfectly smooth and velvety to the touch, especially as the finger ..."
4. Birds of the Northwest: A Hand-book of the Ornithology of the Region Drained by Elliott Coues (1874)
"Tomia of superior mandible at first ascending and a little concave; th descending
and a lit'le convex; again, very decidedly concave as it decurves towa the ..."
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