Word Meanings - INCURVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCURVED)

• Crooked
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• anfractuous
• tortuous
• underhanded

Related words: (words related to INCURVED)

• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• TURNVEREIN
  A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
• TURNHALLE
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• CROOKEDLY
  In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• DIUTURNAL
  Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• OVERTURN
  1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.