inturn
noun
an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
inturned
-
a word derived from
inturn.
Example Sentences
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He opened the door of the cage, and William the Conqueror came mincing out, waddling on his inturned toes like some fat, velvet-clad dowager.
From The Halo by B. Martin Justice
The eradicator is a small pair of tweezers made, ordinarily, out of a piece of beaten brass wire bent double and having inturned edges.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
The mouth, with a very small œsophagus, lies at the bottom of the inturned peristome.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
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
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
