The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recurved \Re*curved"\ (r?*k?rvd"), a. Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
Wiktionary
curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself v
(en-past of: recurve)
WordNet
adj. curved backward or inward [syn: recurvate]
Usage examples of "recurved".
Thin as a reed and barely recurved, it had the slightest suggestion of ears as the tip flared outward to accept the string.
Strolling over to him she took the weapon and hefted it, tracing her fingers along its graceful lines, all the way to the recurved tip.
They had sharp, compressed, and recurved teeth, the edges of which were serrated.
The front legs of theropods are, with rare exceptions, less than half the length of the back legs, and the hand has, instead of five, only three functioning fingers, which terminate in compressed, recurved claws.
But while these latter feeding habits are acceptable for some ornithomimosaurs, namely those rare ones that have recurved claws in the hand, they are not adequate for those which have straight, flat claws.
However, its arms are very strong and the claws of the hand are recurved and raptorial-looking, quite unlike those in ornithomimosaurs.
These flattened, recurved, saberlike teeth easily penetrated the skin of the prey, because the force of closing the mouth was concentrated directly through the sharp tips of the teeth.
Bellis imagined bodies like puffy eels, eyes and slablike recurved teeth heading under cold water toward her home.
At the end of its four-mile reins, coddled by the rockmilk engine, held tight by hooks like recurved steeples, the avanc progressed steadily and curiously through what was, to it, an alien sea.
The presence in the mouths of the faces there represented of a recurved tusk in addition to other teeth is a further resemblance to the drawings of peccaries.
They have no great tusks as an elephant should, but, instead, short recurved teeth similar to those representing peccary tusks, as already pointed out.
Short, recurved bows, arrows nocked, were trained on Karsa and Torvald.
The bow was heavier than it looked, sharply recurved and braced with horn.
I - - A barren fragment of undershrub, with opposite fleshy leaves with recurved margins.
These men bore wooden self-bows, longer than the recurved composite bows of the East, and wore the traditional stone wristguards the Escquahar had brought from Ivaerisa.