recurve
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Which brings us back to the hero’s mythical recurve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Para-archery: In Paralympic archery, archers compete in three classes - W1, open compound and open recurve.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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
Sales of kid-size recurve bows have more than quadrupled this year, said Jim Belcher, owner of the manufacturer Sky Archery, based in Brighton, Mich., which specializes in this most traditional of bows.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2012
The inner line of flow is determined by drawing an imaginary line between the inner delta and the center of the innermost recurve or looping ridge.
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
Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Stigmas sessile, awl-shaped or slender, spreading or recurved above, persistent, stigmatic down the inner side.
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
The umbrella tree has an umbrella-like whorl of leaves surrounding the flower whose white cup stands above three recurving white sepals.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
The recurving bases of the styles or tails of the carpels in fruit naked 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
A recurving ridge, however, which has an appendage connected with it in the line of flow and on the delta side cannot be construed as a circuit.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
