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recurvate

verb transitive

[L. recurro; re and curvo, to bend.]

To bend back.

recurvate

adjective
In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.

recurvate

Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.