Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-CURV'ATE
RE-CURV'ATE, a.
- In botany, bent, bowed or curved downward; as, a recurvate leaf. – Martyn.
- Bent outward; as, a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol. – Martyn.
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