incurvate

VERB
  1. cause to curve inward
    gravity incurvates the rays
  2. bend inwards
    The body incurvates a little at the back
ADJECTIVE
  1. bent into or having an inward curve
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How To Use incurvate In A Sentence

  • An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart
  • The body incurvates a little at the back
  • In the, we lister be incurvate for the illuminant to butchering columbidae and reverence with cloistral adhd. Rational Review
  • Their characteristics are -- bill strong, a little incurvated; toes, three before, none behind; legs long, and naked above the knees. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
  • Then combined pipe-line theory, the accumulator's integrated mathematical model with incurvate and strange diameter series connection pipeline is built.
  • Its leaves, or rather its palms, crown a trunk of eighty or one hundred feet high; their direction is almost perpendicular when young, as well as at their full growth, the points only being incurvated. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • Fig. 222 is of more elaborate design; the use of garnet is again apparent, but the spaces between the jewellery are filled with a double row of incurvated ornaments, made of fine threads of gold; sometimes these threads of gold are reeded, or plaited, of two or three finer gold threads. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture
  • Thence it was gathered into the great littoral current flowing from Africa to Asia, and formed an incurvated coast-line ending in the headland of Casios, on the Syrian frontier. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
  • The third sepal is saccate, with a slightly incurvate spur.
  • A rather poorly known species, the incurvate emerald occupies a narrow range from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west to Wisconsin.
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