Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having the leaves slightly curved.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having the margins only a little curved; said of leaves.

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  • Himself of the whole; and the curvative — the steady progression and the productive condition; and the circular the same, and the holding together the middle and extremities, which encompass and are encompassed, — and the turning to Him of the things which proceeded from Him.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

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