"Incurved" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the shock too great for the proper influence to be transmitted from the tip. We have strictly analogous cases with Drosera, Dionaea and Pinguicula, with which plants a too powerful stimulus does not excite the tentacles to become incurved, or the lobes to close, or the margin to be ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin
... at once. Thenceforward I was simply a passenger depending on his strong right arm for guidance, and at luncheon-hour upon his alert and nimble, though slightly incurved, legs for sustenance, the inn being often a mile ...
— The Underdog • F. Hopkinson Smith
... in the front row of a mass of revellers packed as spectators along the incurved outer rim of the ring, we had a surpassingly good view of the procession as it entered the circle. There were various bands of votaries and then six eunuch priests, their faces whitened with flour, their garb a flowing robe ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White |
