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curved
CIDE DICTIONARY
curved, adj.
- not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of
straight ."[Narrower terms:arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed ;falcate, sickle-shaped ;flexuous ;incurvate, incurved :recurved, recurvate ;semicircular :serpentine, snaky :sinuate, sinuous, wavy :sinusoidal ]" [WordNet 1.5] - curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of
orthotropous . [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
curved
arched, arciform, bending, bent, billowing, billowy, bowed, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, embowed, excurved, geosynclinal, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, round, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, undulant, wavyROGET THESAURUS
curved
Curvature
N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.For further exploring for "curved" in Webster Dictionary Online