recurved

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adjective

Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of recurve
adjectiverecurved (comparative more recurved, superlative most recurved)

comparative more recurved · superlative most recurved

  1. 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

adjectivecurved backward or inward

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recurved,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recurved.

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