Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of recurve
comparative more recurved · superlative most recurved
- Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
1 more example
We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper.
1827, William Hone, The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times..., page 355
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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recurved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recurved
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