incurvated
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Its leaves, or rather its palms, crown a trunk of eighty or one hundred feet high; their direction is almost perpendicular when young, as well as at their full growth, the points only being incurvated.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
Beak incurvated as if broken, denticulate; feet webbed: 1 species.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Their characteristics are—bill strong, a little incurvated; toes, three before, none behind; legs long, and naked above the knees.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various
After some time the last water-spout was incurvated and broke like the others, with this difference, that its disjunction was attended with a flash of lightning, but no explosion was heard.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr
Tzimpuztequi, on the other hand, besides meaning lame, also signified something crooked, bent or incurvated.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
