inturn
noun
an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
inturned
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a word derived from
inturn.
Example Sentences
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They are placed on the ground straight ahead, though the tendency to inturned feet is slightly more noticeable than it is among the men.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
Indeed, all the other sense organs and the nervous system and brain which have evolved in the use of them, are simply inturned and specialized skin cells.
From Analyzing Character by Katherine M. H. Blackford
It was a very old woman with a wrinkled face and the inturned lips of the toothless.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
He was one of those men whose face suggests the word "muzzle," with an erect combative nose and a forward slant of the body from the rather inturned feet.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Now, at Figure 8, a slightly later stage is represented, and at 9 i. the inturned part is separated from the general external epiblast as the spinal cord.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
