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
But when he turned 21, a friend gave him a Hungarian recurve horseback bow.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2018
In figure 139, the core is located on the recurve and an imaginary line between the delta and the core does not cross a 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
Transition bowl-platter with 11 flanges to hold binding; no neck or recurved rim; H/D ratio 38 per cent on border between bowl and round platter classes.
From Mohave Pottery by Michaell J. Harner
Petals numerous, small and thickish, stamen-like or scale-like, inserted with the very numerous short stamens on the receptacle under the ovary, not surpassing the disk-like 8–24-rayed sessile stigma, persistent and at length recurved.
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
Strong, recurving tips, armed with slender prickles, are seen in the scales of the reddish-brown cones that fall soon after they spread and liberate the winged seeds.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
"Aow!" he yelled, recurving like a bow and putting his hands to his wound.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
The part of the circuit in front of the right delta, however, cannot be construed as a recurving ridge because of the appendage abutting upon it in the line of flow.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
The fern, itself, with its tall, recurving leaves makes a beautiful ornament for the shady lawn, and like the interrupted fern is easy to cultivate.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
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