incurvation

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Experiment 17.—As the pressure from bits of glass causes incurvation, I scratched the margins of two leaves for some minutes with a blunt needle, but no effect was produced.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

Empty cells becoming confluent, vesicular by incurvation of the circular margin, forming a deep and round umbilication.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

For how can the suns rayes that be transmisse Through these loose knots in Comets, well expresse Their beards or curld tayls utmost incurvation?

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

This incurvation serves, as already shown, to prevent insects from being washed away by the rain; but it likewise serves for another end.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

The incurvation increased slightly during the next 4 1/2 hrs., but remained nearly the same for the next 17 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles