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Recurvate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.

2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.

Recurvate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bend back.

Recurvate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Recurved.

Recurvate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bend or curve back; to recurve.