Word Meanings - SUBADUNCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat hooked or curved.

Related words: (words related to SUBADUNCATE)

• HOOKE'S GEARING
  Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• HOOKEY
  See HOCKEY
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• HOOKY
  Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
• HOOK
  1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. Hook him, my poor
• CURVILINEARITY
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• CURVATIVE
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.
• CURVIDENTATE
  Having curved teeth.
• CURVAL; CURVANT
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• CURVIROSTRAL
  Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
• CURVILINEAD
  An instrument for drawing curved lines.
• CURVINERVED
  Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
• CURVITY
  The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. Holder.
• CURVICOSTATE
  Having bent ribs.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• CANT HOOK
  A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. Bartlett.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• SHOOK
  imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
• PORTHOOK
  One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached. J. Knowles.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• SCURVILY
  In a scurvy manner.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.
• BILLHOOK
  A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
• SCURVY
  1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy
• INCURVATION
  1. The act of bending, or curving. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham. 3. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall.