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Definition of Recurves
1. recurve [v] - See also: recurve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurves
Literary usage of Recurves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Cyclonic Storms in the Bay of Bengal: For the Use of Sailors by John Eliot (1900)
"Also, if a storm recurves in the Bay, all previous experience shows that it will
... If it recurves very slowly and fairly regularly over a considerable ..."
2. The Physical Geography and Meteorology of the North Atlantic: Together with by William Henry Rosser, James Frederick Imray (1869)
"Generally, however, the rapidity with which the vortex of the hurricane progresses,
is greater as the storm recurves on reaching the outer edge of the ..."
3. Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses (1988)
"In the central pocket loop, one or more of the simple recurves of the plain loop
type usually recurve a second time to form a pocket within the loop. ..."
4. Large Scale Coastal Behavior (1993) edited by J. H. List (1995)
"Buctouche Spit has a broad depositional spit platform and increasingly complex
dune recurves at the distal end. Long Point has a proportionately narrower ..."
5. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... where a great stream flows from the northwest and recurves along the Mississippi
Valley, while a second stream arising in the Gulf of Mexico flows ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"... but what it exhibits most remarkable is, that it appears to be traversed by
the rectum, because, in its breadth it recurves around this intestine, ..."
7. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"... dorsal margin slightly convex from the apex to the inner branch of the dorsal
fork, then slightly concave to the claval suture where it recurves to the ..."
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