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 ofleaves .
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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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