incurvate
adjective
curved, especially inward.
incurvation
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a word derived from
incurvate.
Example Sentences
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Experiment 17.—As the pressure from bits of glass causes incurvation, I scratched the margins of two leaves for some minutes with a blunt needle, but no effect was produced.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
The pressure from fragments of glass excites movement almost as quickly as the absorption of nitrogenous matter, but the degree of incurvation thus caused is much less.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
The incurvation subsequently increased somewhat, but after 24 hrs. had greatly decreased.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
With the second leaf there was a trace of incurvation in 2 hrs.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
But since the members are equal, it is necessary that the member which is quiescent should be inflected either in the knee or in the incurvation, if the animal that walks is without knees.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent
