Word Meanings - RECURVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

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• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• OPPOSITE
  1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. The opposites of this day's strife. Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• 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.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.
• RECURVIROSTER
  A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.
• CURVILINEARITY
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• CURVATIVE
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.
• CURVIDENTATE
  Having curved teeth.
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• RECURVIROSTRAL
  Having the beak bent upwards.
• CURVAL; CURVANT
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• CURVIROSTRAL
  Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
• RECURVOUS
  Recurved. Derham.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• SCURVILY
  In a scurvy manner.
• 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.
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.