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

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

With the second leaf there was a trace of incurvation in 2 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

In 1 hr. there was apparently some slight incurvation, and this was well-marked in 3 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles