recurvous

English

Etymology

From Latin recurvus, from re- (“re”) + curvus (“curved”).

Adjective

recurvous (comparative more recurvous, superlative most recurvous)

  1. (archaic) recurved
    • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
      I have observed long recurvous Tails, longer than their whole Body.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recurvous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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