Definition of Decurving

1. decurve [v] - See also: decurve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decurving

decurrent
decurrently
decursion
decursions
decursive
decursively
decurt
decurtate
decurtation
decurted
decurting
decurts
decurve
decurved
decurves
decurving (current term)
decury
decussate
decussated
decussately
decussates
decussating
decussatio
decussatio brachii conjunctivi
decussatio fontinalis
decussatio lemniscorum
decussatio motoria
decussatio nervorum trochlearium
decussatio pedunculorum cerebellarium superiorum
decussatio pyramidum

Literary usage of Decurving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... flattened above, dilated upwards into the lamina, pubescent with decurving hairs, 1-1-8 cm. long. Stem herbaceous or sub- shrubby ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"The males dart ahead of the females, setting and decurving their wings and throwing their heads up, exhibiting their striking markings to the best advantage ..."

3. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States: For the Use of Classes in by George Hazen French (1914)
"... and terminating in a broad, flattened, posteriorly rounded, transverse, slightly decurving flap, the borders thickened basally and extending ventrally. ..."

4. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1882)
"Hist. vp 737) that it grasps by its claws in opposing pairs, not bending its toes, but straightening them and decurving its claws underneath them. ..."

5. General Biology: A Book of Outlines and Practical Studies for the General by James George Needham (1910)
"... retractile beneath the head, its terminal joint folding downward, much as in the bees: but at its tip, instead of the hairy, decurving, ..."

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