incurvation
Example Sentences
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This incurvation serves, as already shown, to prevent insects from being washed away by the rain; but it likewise serves for another end.
From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles
For how can the suns rayes that be transmisse Through these loose knots in Comets, well expresse Their beards or curld tayls utmost incurvation?
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
The incurvation thus caused lasted for an unusually short time.
From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles
Empty cells becoming confluent, vesicular by incurvation of the circular margin, forming a deep and round umbilication.
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 Gray, Asa
With the second leaf there was a trace of incurvation in 2 hrs.
From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles
