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Definition of Incurvate
1. Adjective. Bent into or having an inward curve.
2. Verb. Bend inwards. "The body incurvates a little at the back"
3. Verb. Cause to curve inward. "Gravity incurvates the rays"
Definition of Incurvate
1. a. Curved; bent; crooked.
2. v. t. To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Definition of Incurvate
1. Adjective. bending inwards. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to have a curved or bent shape; to bend or curve inwards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incurvate
1. [v -VATED, -VATING, -VATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incurvate
Literary usage of Incurvate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1845)
"... incurvate, with the mouth very prominent, and furnished with a pair of external,
partially adnate pointed palpi, and three pairs of incurvate, ..."
2. Botanical Commentaries by Jonathan Stokes (1830)
"Peduncle with I and 2 branches at the base, pubescent; hairs of the peduncle
straight, clavate at the end ; those of the branches incurvate, acute. ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1845)
"... incurvate, with the mouth very prominent, and furnished with a pair of external,
partially adnate pointed palpi, and three pairs of incurvate, ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1887)
"Maxillary palpi slender cylindrical, black shining, pale on tip ; apical joint
notched on tip, third joint incurvate ; the two basal joints globular, ..."
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