recurvate

English edit

Pronunciation edit

(verb) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
(adjective) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)vət/, /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)veɪt

Verb edit

recurvate (third-person singular simple present recurvates, present participle recurvating, simple past and past participle recurvated)

To bend or curve back; to recurve.
- 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
  With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line

Adjective edit

recurvate (comparative more recurvate, superlative most recurvate)

(botany) recurved

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recurvate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

verrucate

Latin edit

Participle edit

recurvāte

vocative masculine singular of recurvātus

Spanish edit

Verb edit

recurvate

second-person singular voseo imperative of recurvar combined with te