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
If no second recurve is present, an obstruction at right angles to the inner line of flow is acceptable in lieu of it.
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
Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes; a cup-shaped crown connecting the stamens.
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 group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
Branched and recurving jets were curiously associated with it.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
There was a whirl in the waters, and quick as thought the vast flukes of the whale rose in the air, recurving with a sidelong sweep as of some gigantic scythe.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
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
Hill, after joining him, continued the line northward, parallel to ours, and therefore crossing the British road again, recurving toward the creek.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
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