recurvate

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (verb) /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)vət/, /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)veɪt

Verb

recurvate (third-person singular simple present recurvates, present participle recurvating, simple past and past participle recurvated)

  1. To bend or curve back; to recurve.
    • 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
      With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line

Adjective

recurvate (comparative more recurvate, superlative most recurvate)

  1. (botany) recurved

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Latin

Participle

recurvāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of recurvātus

Spanish

Verb

recurvate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recurvar combined with te