Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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RECURV'ATE, verb transitive [Latin recurro; re and curvo, to bend.] To bend back.
RECURV'ATE, adjective
1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.
2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.
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