Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, curved back or downward: as, a recurved leaf, petal, etc.
- In zoology, bent upward: the opposite of
decurved : as, the recurved beak of the avoset.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
recurve . - adjective
curved orbent , either in two different directions, or back on itself
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective curved backward or inward
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Examples
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I do tend to prefer a "traditional" crossbow, with a rolling nut release and a recurved bow (I just don't like compounds, not that I would ever protest somebody using a compound crossbow).
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Long ago, my brother and I were practicing with 65# recurved bows and cedar hunting arrows.
Has anyone ever had a string snap on them when they were shooting? 2010
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I have seen beautiful Bear and Ben Pearson 55-60lb recurved bows that go for about $30-$100.
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I have seen beautiful Bear and Ben Pearson 55-60lb recurved bows that go for about $30-$100.
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Long ago, my brother and I were practicing with 65# recurved bows and cedar hunting arrows.
Has anyone ever had a string snap on them when they were shooting? 2010
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I do tend to prefer a "traditional" crossbow, with a rolling nut release and a recurved bow (I just don't like compounds, not that I would ever protest somebody using a compound crossbow).
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And when at last the Oguz tribes of the Turks stormed westward, wielding their recurved bows and their sharpyatagansfrom the backs of quick little horses, seizing or destroying all before them, the simurgh also followed.
Simurgh 2010
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Your lily are gorgeous, lust love those recurved petals!
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Frances, ~they are ruffled, diamond dusted, recurved, doubled lovelies that will certainly be missed.
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Babirusas (literally "pig-deer" in Bahasa-Indonesian) are pig-like animals characterized by the male's long recurved tusks that penetrate the upper lip.
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