incurving

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Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had neither the raking bow nor the rising poop of the local mehala, but a tall incurving beak, not unlike those of certain Mesopotamian sculptures, with a windowed and curtained deck-house at the stern.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Near the shore the waves broke into white sprites of foam against the deep, incurving cliffs.

From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Vandercook, Margaret O'Bannon Womack

Cœlospermous, applied to those fruits of Umbellifer� which have the seed hollowed on the inner face, by incurving of top and bottom; as in Coriander.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

A southern incurving projection of the outer shore-line of this peninsula is known as Tres Montes peninsula, the most southern point of which is a cape of the same name.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various