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Definition of Recurving
1. recurve [v] - See also: recurve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurving
Literary usage of Recurving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"By the 27th it had reached the coast of Great Abaco, recurving toward the northeast.
On the 28th all traces of the storm had disappeared, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... downy, sometimes a foot long: fls. rose-purple, ascending, arched at the top
and the lower lip recurving, borne in dense terminal spike-like thyrses. ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1906)
"They are a soft creamy tone in color, thickly dotted with pink and are one and
a half inches long, recurving strongly, as paper can be curled by means of a ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1906)
"They are a soft creamy tone in color, thickly dotted with pink and are one and
a half inches long, recurving strongly, as paper can be curled by means of a ..."
5. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"slender, with recurving branches, the small ovate and acute sharply-toothed leaves
hairy, and beneath even hoary ; the small white flowers solitary or ..."
6. Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses (1988)
"From our study of cores, we know that the top of the rod more distant from the
delta is the core, but the recurving ridge does not pass the imaginary line. ..."
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