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incurvate

VERB
  1. cause to curve inward
    gravity incurvates the rays
  2. bend inwards
    The body incurvates a little at the back
ADJECTIVE
  1. bent into or having an inward curve

How To Use incurvate In A Sentence

  • An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart
  • The results are in general agreement with the previous typological categories defined by Railey in showing a general progression from incurvate, thin specimens to excurvate, thicker forms through time.
  • In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • Then combined pipe-line theory, the accumulator's integrated mathematical model with incurvate and strange diameter series connection pipeline is built.
  • These measurements were recorded because they allowed us to define such attributes as incurvate base, excurvate blade, etc. in a non-subjective manner.
  • These columns moved forward on the surface of the sea, and the clouds not following them with equal rapidity, they assumed a bent or incurvated shape, and frequently appeared crossing each other, evidently proceeding in different directions; from whence we concluded, that it being calm, each of these water-spouts caused a wind of its own. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
  • The third sepal is saccate, with a slightly incurvate spur.
  • The leaf petiole incurvates, the lamina swells, the central bud loses its structure and the central inflorescence does not form.
  • In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • gravity incurvates the rays
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