incurvate, incurved
(adjective) bent into or having an inward curve
incurvate
(verb) cause to curve inward; “gravity incurvates the rays”
incurvate
(verb) bend inwards; “The body incurvates a little at the back”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
incurvate (comparative more incurvate, superlative most incurvate)
bending inwards.
Curved; bent; crooked.
incurvate (third-person singular simple present incurvates, present participle incurvating, simple past and past participle incurvated)
(transitive) To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to.
(intransitive) to have a curved or bent shape; to bend or curve inwards.
Source: Wiktionary
In*cur"vate, a. Etym: [L. incurvatus, p. p. of incurvare to crook; pref. in- in + curvus bent. See Curve, and cf. Incurve.]
Definition: Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.
In*cur"vate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incurvated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incurvating.]
Definition: To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook. Cheyne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.