Noah Webster
Recurvate
RECURV'ATE, verb transitive [Latin recurro; re and curvo, to bend.] To bend back.
RECURV'ATE, adjective
1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.
2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.