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 following rules govern the selection of the core of a loop: ● The core is placed upon or within the innermost sufficient recurve.
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
Leaves channelled, linear; spikes 3–5, on unequal often recurved peduncles, ovoid, chestnut-brown; bracts ciliate-fringed; sepals taper-pointed, longer than the obtuse capsule; seeds not appendaged.—Alpine summits of the White Mts. and far northward.
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
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
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
This has from one to four flowers, which are an inch long, with simple campanulate outline, without recurving tips.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
"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
Since the delta would be located on the only recurve, this recurving ridge is eliminated from consideration.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
A recurving ridge enters from the right side and exits in the same direction.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
