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incurved
adjective as in concave
adjective as in curved
Example Sentences
There were teeth in the beak, too, like a series of sharp incurved hooks.
The foregoing have the outer edges, toward the top, somewhat raised and a bit incurved.
Bill moderate, slender, straight, much compressed, culmen elevated, towards the tip slightly incurved.
Abdomen of the male with the last joint pointed, and a slender incurved hook beneath; the valves large, attenuated and hooked.
Ovary 12–35-celled, the concave summit tipped with a globular projection at the centre, around which are the radiate stigmas; these project at the margin, and are extended into linear and incurved sterile appendages.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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