incurvated

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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.

From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

In his compliments to the Shah, Saadi says,—"The incurvated back of the sky became straight with joy at thy birth."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

Tzimpuztequi, on the other hand, besides meaning lame, also signified something crooked, bent or incurvated.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Their characteristics are—bill strong, a little incurvated; toes, three before, none behind; legs long, and naked above the knees.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various