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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bent or curved backward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
recurve . - In botany and zoology, recurved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Recurved.
- transitive verb To bend or curve back; to recurve.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
bend orcurve back; torecurve .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective curved backward or inward
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palooka commented on the word recurvate
An elegant & beautiful word that simply means bent or curved backwards.
January 14, 2007