recurvate
RECURV'ATE,
v.t. [L. recurro; re and curvo, to bend.] To bend back.
RECURV'ATE,
a.
1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.
2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.
