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 much shorter than head, slender, straight to end of nasal channel, which extends beyond middle of bill, then slightly raised, but decurved at tip; wings long, pointed.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

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

The hybrid is intermediate in curvature of the lateral line, which is nearly straight in Rhinichthys and strongly decurved in Gila.

From Five Natural Hybrid Combinations in Minnows (Cyprinidae) by Cross, Frank B.

Involucral leaves like the cauline but more equally lobed; perianth obovate, dorsally compressed, bilabiate, the mouth truncate, entire or toothed, 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