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▪ I. recurvate, a.|rɪˈkɜːvət|
[ad. L. recurvāt-us, pa. pple. of recurvāre to recurve.]
Recurved.
1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 382 Recurvatum, recurvate, bent backwards in the Form of an Arch, the convex Side upwards. 1866Treas. Bot. 962/1 Recurvate, bent, but not rolled backwards. 1869Gillmore tr. Figuier's Rept. & Birds Introd. 185 By the anterior series of one barb over-lapping and hooking into the recurvate formation of the barb next to it.
▪ II. recurvate, v. Now rare.|rɪˈkɜːveɪt|
[See prec. and recurve v.]
1. trans. To bend (a thing) back. rare.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 34 b/2 We must then, with one finger, recurvate the end of the needle. 1656in Blount Glossogr.
b. In pa. pple. Bent backwards.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. lf. xiij b/2 An other bullet-drawer is hoockishe and recurvated. 1666Harvey Morb. Angl. viii. 74 The Nails of those whose Lungs are Ulcerated, are recurvated or turn'd back like the claws of wild beasts. 1683–4Robinson in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 482, I had a View of the Ibex..whose large Horns are recurvated almost as far back as the Tail. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 266 The spine is more strongly recurvated than ever, and forms an arch over the bed.
2. intr. Of a thing: To bend back; to recurve.
1822–34[see recurvating ppl. a. below]. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (Low) iii. §174 These gales..march to the N. West until they join it [the Gulf Stream], when they ‘recurvate’, as the phrase is, and take up their line of march to the N. East.
Hence reˈcurvating ppl. a.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 466 Wherever the skin was scratched, a calcareous fluid oozed from it, that soon hardened and put forth corneous, recurvating excrescences, frequently divaricating. |