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Definition of Recurvate
1. Adjective. Curved backward or inward.
Definition of Recurvate
1. a. Recurved.
2. v. t. To bend or curve back; to recurve.
Definition of Recurvate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Recurvate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurvate
Literary usage of Recurvate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Commentaries by Jonathan Stokes (1830)
"Pubescent; hairs recurvate. Stem 10 inches long, with 2 racemi; ... Leaves of
the terminal shoot lineari-lanceolate; hairs recurvate and subre- curvate; ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"recurvate hooks, calculated to lacerate the tissues when the proboscis is withdrawn
from a soft vegetable mass into which it has been plunged ..."
3. A Monograph of the British Spongiadæ by James Scott Bowerbank (1864)
"... when an enlargement of the apex of the shaft takes place, and the rudiments
of the stout recurvate radii appear as represented by Fig. ..."
4. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"... and recurvate above; the forming a kind of lower lip, revolute, yellow below,
above yellow with short longitudinal red lines; the 5th linear, erect, ..."
5. Flora Indica, Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants by William Roxburgh, William Carey (1832)
"Germ ovate, one-celled, containing three seeds attached to the bottom of the cell.
Style scarcely any; stigma three-cleft; segments rugose and recurvate. ..."
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