incurvation

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Behind this, from the concave side of the incurvation, proceeded another long cilium, so delicate as to be discernible only by the use of the highest powers and careful management of the light.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas 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

A short space of this margin, opposite the fly, showed a trace of incurvation after 3 hrs., and this became strongly pronounced in 7 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

But since the members are equal, it is necessary that the member which is quiescent should be inflected either in the knee or in the incurvation, if the animal that walks is without knees.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir