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Definition of Recurved
1. Adjective. Curved backward or inward.
Definition of Recurved
1. a. Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
Definition of Recurved
1. Verb. (past of recurve) ¹
2. Adjective. curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recurved
1. recurve [v] - See also: recurve
Medical Definition of Recurved
1. Curved or curled downwards or backwards. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurved
Literary usage of Recurved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... long) and recurved, brown-tipped, with many dark green veins and cross ...
stout, recurved, short- acute, very strongly and irregularly marked and ..."
2. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"Fluids rise to the same level in the opposite arms of a recurved tube. a Let
ABC, (Fig. 177,) be a recurved tube : if water be ..."
3. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1850)
"177,) be a recurved tube : if water be poured into one arm of the tube, ...
Fluids rise to the same level in the opposite arms of a recurved tube. » Amott. ..."
4. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"177,) be a recurved tube: if water be poured into one arm of the tube, it will
rise to the same height in the other arm. For, by Art. 386, the pressure upon ..."
5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... folded-carinate, margin scarcely broader : capsule on a slightly exserted
pedicel, cylindric-oblong, brown, wholly recurved, the upper with a long ..."
6. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"Calyx-limb deeply 4-cleft ; segments lanceolate with their apices recurved when
in fruit : disk of the ovary pubescent or hairy: epicarp rather dry : cocci ..."
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