Word Meanings - RECURVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Recurved.

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• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.
• RECURVIROSTER
  A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.
• RECURVIROSTRAL
  Having the beak bent upwards.
• RECURVOUS
  Recurved. Derham.
• RECURVATION
  The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
• RECURVED
  Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.