Lexicographical Neighbors of Decurving
Literary usage of Decurving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... flattened above, dilated upwards into the lamina, pubescent with decurving
hairs, 1-1-8 cm. long. Stem herbaceous or sub- shrubby ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"The males dart ahead of the females, setting and decurving their wings and throwing
their heads up, exhibiting their striking markings to the best advantage ..."
3. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States: For the Use of Classes in by George Hazen French (1914)
"... and terminating in a broad, flattened, posteriorly rounded, transverse, slightly
decurving flap, the borders thickened basally and extending ventrally. ..."
4. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1882)
"Hist. vp 737) that it grasps by its claws in opposing pairs, not bending its
toes, but straightening them and decurving its claws underneath them. ..."
5. General Biology: A Book of Outlines and Practical Studies for the General by James George Needham (1910)
"... retractile beneath the head, its terminal joint folding downward, much as in
the bees: but at its tip, instead of the hairy, decurving, ..."
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