decurved

American  

[dee-kurvd] / diˈkɜrvd /

adjective

1. curved downward, as the bill of a bird.

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decurved British  

/ diːˈkɜːvd /

adjective

1. bent or curved downwards

   a decurved bill

   decurved petals

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Etymology

Origin of decurved

First recorded in 1825–35; de- + curved ( def. )

Example Sentences

The ducks have vanished, but Dugan discovers a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, and Gallo and Bonomo get two Whimbrels, large, leggy shorebirds with long, decurved bills.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2021

Bill slender and much decurved; tail usually pointed and stiffened.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

In front of the brain cavity, the great tubular nasal cavities are provided with well-developed turbinal bones, and are roofed over by large nasals, broad behind, and ending in front in a narrow decurved point.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Creeping, pinnately compound, the branches often flagellate; leaves decurved, subquadrate, 3–4-cleft; involucral leaves ovate, truncate, unequally 4-toothed; perianth incurved, dentate.—On the ground and rotten wood, N. J., and common northward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Involucral leaves 2; perianth dorsally compressed, the mouth truncate, bilabiate, decurved.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa