Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recurved

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English

Syllables: re-curved
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of recurve

adj

Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.

Example Sentences

"We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper."

Inflected Forms

more recurved (comparative) most recurved (superlative)

Derived Forms

recurvedly subrecurved unrecurved

Synonyms

recurvate

Questions

What does recurved mean?: simple past and past participle of recurve

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