recurve
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Which brings us back to the hero’s mythical recurve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
When a storm does recurve, it often loses strength because of contact with colder water from the Baja California peninsula or the California coastline.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Ana Paula Vázquez, Mexico: Young archer who began her career using the compound bow, but who has since switched to the recurve bow.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Archery: In Paralympic archery, archers compete in two classes - Open and W1 - and there are two bows used, compound and recurve.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2016
There are also the elements of the type approaching a loop, as it has a delta and ridge count but lacks a recurve.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
The flowers of Evergreen amaryllis feature mint green petals, and Wild Amazone has long, recurved petals in a blend of brick-red, maroon, ivory and pale green.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
When Dr. Caron stuck several of the newly gained specimens under a high-powered scanning microscope, he spotted a ribbonlike structure studded with recurved teeth on both sides, like the business end of a chain saw.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
“They’re these harpoon-like things with all these recurved barbs,” Trager said, adding that’s it’s easy to see why the spines are tough to pull out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
Stems short, inclined to be dichotomously branched, recurved-spreading; leaves usually recurved, the teeth prominent, the dilated base with a projecting tooth each side.—Cayuga marshes, N. Y.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Ovary 3-celled; styles 3, thick, awl-shaped, recurved, stigmatic down their whole length inside.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
De Kooning's characteristically hooked, recurving line takes on an invigorating speed, charging and skidding through the dense paint, slits open with the promise of spatial depth, only to shut again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recurvā′tion, Recur′vity, Recur′vature, the act of recurving: the state of being recurved: a bending backwards.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Anthers oblong, versatile, straight or recurving in age.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
From our study of cores, we know that the top of the rod more distant from the delta is the core, but the recurving ridge does not pass the imaginary line.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
A recurving ridge enters from the right side and exits in the same direction.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
