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Recurved

adjective
1.
Curved backward or inward.  Synonym: recurvate.


Recurve

verb
1.
Curve or bend (something) back or down.





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"Recurved" Quotes from Famous Books



... simple: tubercles long (15 to 20 mm.) and spreading, with woolly axils: radial spines 3, rigid and recurved, 5 mm. long; central spines 3, very stout and much recurved, 20 to 30 mm. long, alternating with the radials; all ashy colored and often twisted: flower and ...
— The North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora • John M. Coulter
... earliest of the garden varieties, well adapted for forcing under glass or for starting in a hot-bed, and subsequent cultivation in the open ground. The plant is of spreading habit, and about eighteen inches in height; leaves small, recurved; tubers of medium size, kidney-shaped, white; flesh white, dry, and well flavored. Very ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr


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