downcurving

With each try, they sink their sharp, downcurving claws into the cavity wall to anchor themselves.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

With each try, they sink their sharp, downcurving claws into the cavity wall to anchor themselves.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

With each try, they sink their sharp, downcurving claws into the cavity wall to anchor themselves.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

A line of horny plates ran along the upper jaw and swept back to form a low ridge above each eye, downcurving to shield the throat.

Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

Handlers with long goads brought on six colossal proboscideans with downcurving tusks.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

The new customer was a youth whose face was hidden in an inlaid close helmet, of which downcurving and intertwined horns formed the visor.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Just let him walk along the roof of a jolting, lurching car, with nothing to hold on to bu the black and empty air, and when he comes to the downcurving end of the roof, all wet and slippery with dew, let him accelerate his speed so as to step across to the next roof, downcurving and wet and slippery.

"Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907

I raise my arms overhead until my hands rest upon the downcurving ends of the roofs of the two cars.

"Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907

I am now in a precarious position, riding the ends of the downcurving roofs of two cars at the same time.

"Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907

In his morose abstraction he did not know how long or how aimlessly he had wandered among the mossy live-oaks, his head and shoulders often imperiled by the downcurving of some huge knotted limb; his feet straying blindly from the faint track over the thickly matted carpet of chickweed which hid their roots.

A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869