Word Meanings - CURVISERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

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• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• DISTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• DISTRIBUTIVE
  A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
• CURVILINEARITY
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• DISTRIBUTION
  A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena
• CURVATIVE
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.
• CURVIDENTATE
  Having curved teeth.
• DISTRIBUTARY
  Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
• DISTRIBUTER
  One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.
• CURVAL; CURVANT
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• CURVIROSTRAL
  Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
• CURVILINEAD
  An instrument for drawing curved lines.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• SCURVILY
  In a scurvy manner.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.
• SCURVY
  1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy
• INCURVATION
  1. The act of bending, or curving. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham. 3. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall.
• REDISTRIBUTE
  To distribute again. -- Re*dis`tri*bu"tion (-tr, n.
• RECURVIROSTER
  A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.