recurvate
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (verb) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)vət/, /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)veɪt
Verb
[edit]recurvate (third-person singular simple present recurvates, present participle recurvating, simple past and past participle recurvated)
- To bend or curve back; to recurve.
- 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
- With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line
Adjective
[edit]recurvate (comparative more recurvate, superlative most recurvate)
References
[edit]- “recurvate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]recurvāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]recurvate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of recurvar combined with te
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