| 单词 | incurvate |
| 例句 | Beak incurvated as if broken, denticulate; feet webbed: 1 species. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Tzimpuztequi, on the other hand, besides meaning lame, also signified something crooked, bent or incurvated. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations In his compliments to the Shah, Saadi says,—"The incurvated back of the sky became straight with joy at thy birth." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as to give strength, figure, and solidity to the whole fabric. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Finally, standing erect and incurvating her abdomen between her legs, she cleans it and her ovipositor with her jaws and tongue. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals After some time the last water-spout was incurvated and broke like the others, with this difference, that its disjunction was attended with a flash of lightning, but no explosion was heard. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Their characteristics are—bill strong, a little incurvated; toes, three before, none behind; legs long, and naked above the knees. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Its leaves, or rather its palms, crown a trunk of eighty or one hundred feet high; their direction is almost perpendicular when young, as well as at their full growth, the points only being incurvated. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The after part of a ship's bow, before the chess-tree, or that where the planks begin to be incurvated as they approach the stem. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. His chin was so long, so peaked, and incurvated, as to form in profile, with his impending forehead, the exact resemblance of a moon in the first quarter. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves |
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