recurvate
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (verb) /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)vət/, /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)veɪt
Verb
recurvate (third-person singular simple present recurvates, present participle recurvating, simple past and past participle recurvated)
- To bend or curve back; to recurve.
- 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
- With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line
Adjective
recurvate (comparative more recurvate, superlative most recurvate)
References
- “recurvate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
recurvāte
- vocative masculine singular of recurvātus
Spanish
Verb
recurvate