recurvate

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. 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

recurvate (comparative more recurvate, superlative most recurvate)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• verrucate

Latin

Participle

recurvāte

1. vocative masculine singular of recurvātus

Spanish

Verb

recurvate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recurvar combined with te