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Example sentences for "incurved"

Lexicographically close words:
incurrere; incurring; incurs; incursion; incursions; incurving; incus; incuse; ind; inda
  1. Leaves oblong, the points of their teeth incurved =Black Cherry, Prunus serotina.

  2. Beak of the achene sharp, incurved at right angles to the body; common species =Arrow-head, Sagittaria latifolia.

  3. The head in this picture is square or rectangular, and the wings likewise simple, ending in three incurved triangles without appendages.

  4. Double triangle and feathers] The design in figure 336 is likewise unsymmetrical, but it has two lateral triangles with incurved terrace and dentate patterns.

  5. Pileus rather fleshy, more or less plane, margin incurved when young; stem cartilaginous outside.

  6. Stem cartilaginous; pileus convexo-plane, edge incurved at first; gills soon separating from stem.

  7. Stem cartilaginous externally; edge of pileus incurved at first; gills adnexed or adnate.

  8. Gills sinuate behind; edge of pileus incurved when young; stem fibrous or fleshy.

  9. Fragments of flies were placed on two leaves near their tips, which became incurved in 15 hrs.

  10. The two projecting edges of the spirally wound lamina, forming the arms, are provided with short incurved hairs or teeth, exactly like those on the lips.

  11. A moderately sized bit of albumen was placed near the apex of a leaf, under the naturally incurved margin.

  12. The distance across the broadest part of the leaf, between the naturally incurved edges, was .

  13. A bit of meat was also placed on the margin of a leaf, which four days previously had become strongly incurved over a fragment of a fly and had afterwards re-expanded; but the meat did not cause even a trace of incurvation.

  14. Several other glands were touched with a little saliva, and the tentacles became incurved in under 1 hr.

  15. After a leaf has become well incurved and has again expanded, it will not soon answer to a fresh stimulus.

  16. The lips of the orifice are armed with many short, thick, sharply pointed, somewhat incurved hairs or teeth.

  17. We can thus, also, understand how it is that so many insects, and fragments of insects, are generally found lying within the incurved margins of the leaves.

  18. After the cover was removed, bits of meat were placed on the glands of several of the somewhat incurved tentacles; these glands were found much blackened after 6 hrs.

  19. On the other hand, the secretion from glands excited by contact with nitrogenous solids or liquids is invariably acid, and is so copious that it often runs down the leaves and collects within the naturally incurved margins.

  20. A bit of meat was placed close to the incurved edge of a rather young leaf, and after it had re-expanded, the bit was left lying .

  21. When a number of glands have been powerfully excited by bits of meat, insects, or any other stimulus, the secretion often trickles down the leaf, and is caught by the incurved edges, instead of rolling off and being lost.

  22. Stem+ 2 inches long, stuffed, and then hollow, somewhat incurved and unequal, yellowish.

  23. Ovaries nearly straight, with the stigma at the apex, but often incurved in fruiting, so that the seed and embryo are bent into a crescent or ring.

  24. Spikes tawny or dark, rather large, sometimes crowded; perigynium with a more or less thin or winged margin, which is mostly incurved at maturity, rendering the perigynium concave inside.

  25. The petals form an incurved cup, and are broad, with pointed tips; their colour a bright rose, with a lighter shade towards the centre of the flower.

  26. Abdomen of the male with the last joint pointed, and a slender incurved hook beneath; the valves large, attenuated and hooked.

  27. I allude to the incurved form of the legs, and the lateral extension of the great toe, whereby it approaches the thumb-like character of this organ in the Quadrumana.

  28. As in the case of the incurved position of the legs and feet, so in this case of the lateral extensibility of the great toe, the peculiarity is even more marked in embryonic than in infant life.

  29. Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.

  30. Defn: The incurved margin or rim of the external ear.

  31. Incurved portions of the wall of the nasal chamber are sometimes called pseudoturbinals, to distinguish them from the true turbinals which are free outgrowths into the chambers.

  32. The incurved margin or rim of the external ear.

  33. They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.

  34. Margin of pileus at first incurved Naucoria 34.

  35. Margin of pileus at first incurved Psilocybe 41.

  36. The apex of a shell is said to be incurved when it is bent inwards, but not sufficiently so to be described as spiral.

  37. Convolute, chambered, closely related to the Ammonites, from which it differs in the last whorl being eccentrically straightened, and lengthened, and again incurved towards the extremity.

  38. Gretna had caps dark umber when young, and margin incurved to stem.

  39. Pileus= orbicular, spreading; margin drooping or incurved free from the stem, glabrous, hymenium entirely covering the upper surface.

  40. Pileus moist, viscid, margin incurved and downy at first.

  41. In Collybia the stem bears a distinct bark-like skin; in Clitocybe the gills are never sinuate; species of Pleurotus are distinguished by growing on wood only, and Paxillus by their strongly-incurved margin and anastomosing gills.

  42. Flesh= of pileus pliant, at length rather leathery, grooved or wrinkled, margin incurved at first.

  43. Separated from Psathyra by the incurved margin of the pileus.

  44. Pileus= convex, viscid, glabrous, yellow, the margin at first incurved or involute.

  45. The new crown was also arched over, with four graceful incurved members like ostrich feathers, but wrought with oak leaves and acorns.

  46. In some of the later ornate forms, like those described above, the incurved or engrailed edge is accompanied by a field worked with a series of ridges and furrows (figs.

  47. They are obtuse or somewhat acute, and have the edges crenate, or more or less distinctly serrate with sharp incurved teeth.

  48. They are very large and prominent, and have firm lead-colored orbicular-reniform indusia, which are slightly incurved round the edge, and depressed at the sinus.


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    Other words:
    bent; billowy; cavernous; concave; cupped; curved; hollow; incurved; labyrinthine; mazy; meandering; retiring; retreating; serpentine; sinuous; sunk; sunken; tortuous; undulant; wavy