recurve
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of recurve
1590–1600; < Latin recurvāre, equivalent to re- re- + curvāre to curve
Example Sentences
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When a storm does recurve, it often loses strength because of contact with colder water from the Baja California peninsula or the California coastline.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Para-archery: In Paralympic archery, archers compete in three classes - W1, open compound and open recurve.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2021
Ana Paula Vázquez, Mexico: Young archer who began her career using the compound bow, but who has since switched to the recurve bow.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Rand Al-Mashhadani lost her first round match 7-1 to Japan's Kaori Kawanaka in the individual recurve event on Friday.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2014
The outer petals recurve, as the flower develops, until they meet at the stem, thus giving us a ball-like blossom.
From Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Rexford, Eben E. (Eben Eugene)
The flowers of Evergreen amaryllis feature mint green petals, and Wild Amazone has long, recurved petals in a blend of brick-red, maroon, ivory and pale green.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
When Dr. Caron stuck several of the newly gained specimens under a high-powered scanning microscope, he spotted a ribbonlike structure studded with recurved teeth on both sides, like the business end of a chain saw.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
“They’re these harpoon-like things with all these recurved barbs,” Trager said, adding that’s it’s easy to see why the spines are tough to pull out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
Parts of flower 5–12; corolla rotate; anthers recurved or revolute.
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
Hybrids with n. 6 have equally broad and large but duller green leaves, softly tomentose beneath and with shorter petioles, the aments equally thick but usually recurved, and the capsules on shorter pedicels.
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
De Kooning's characteristically hooked, recurving line takes on an invigorating speed, charging and skidding through the dense paint, slits open with the promise of spatial depth, only to shut again.
From Time Magazine Archive
The umbrella tree has an umbrella-like whorl of leaves surrounding the flower whose white cup stands above three recurving white sepals.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
The shoulders of a loop are the points at which the recurving ridge definitely turns inward or curves.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
There was a whirl in the waters, and quick as thought the vast flukes of the whale rose in the air, recurving with a sidelong sweep as of some gigantic scythe.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
From our study of cores, we know that the top of the rod more distant from the delta is the core, but the recurving ridge does not pass the imaginary line.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
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