recurve
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of recurve
1590–1600; < Latin recurvāre, equivalent to re- re- + curvāre to curve
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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
But when he turned 21, a friend gave him a Hungarian recurve horseback bow.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2018
Archery: In Paralympic archery, archers compete in two classes - Open and W1 - and there are two bows used, compound and recurve.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2016
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
For example, a loop with an appendage abutting upon its recurve between the shoulders and at right angles, as in illustration 56, will appear sometimes as in illustration 57 with the recurve totally destroyed.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
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
Stems short, inclined to be dichotomously branched, recurved-spreading; leaves usually recurved, the teeth prominent, the dilated base with a projecting tooth each side.—Cayuga marshes, N. Y.
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
Peduncles and calyx glandular; pedicels recurved in fruit.
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
Recurvā′tion, Recur′vity, Recur′vature, the act of recurving: the state of being recurved: a bending backwards.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Annual, 1–3° high; bracts narrowly oblong, their slender awned tips spreading or recurving; calyx-teeth slender, at length usually spreading; corolla white or pinkish, not spotted.—Neb. to Tex.
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
Occasionally they enter the country from the Pacific, but the great majority come from Alberta and move leisurely southeast, often reaching the South Atlantic States; but more frequently recurving and passing to the north.
From Wind and Weather by McAdie, Alexander
"Aow!" he yelled, recurving like a bow and putting his hands to his wound.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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