Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat bent or bowed; slightly arcuated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a figure resembling that of a
bow ; somewhatcurved orarched .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Above and between these two openings is an irregular depression which lodges a process of the dura mater and transmits a small vein; in the infant this depression is represented by a large fossa, the subarcuate fossa, which extends backward as a blind tunnel under the superior semicircular canal.
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