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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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, wavy
Dictionary Results for curved:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
curved
    adj 1: having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend;
           "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips
           suggested a smile but his eyes were hard" [syn: curved,
           curving] [ant: straight]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Curve \Curve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curved (k[^u]rvd); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Curving.] [L. curvare., fr. curvus. See Curve, a.,
   Curb.]
   To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to
   cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball
   in pitching it.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
curved \curved\ adj.
   1. not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of
      straight.

   Note: [Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform,
         arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous;
         incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate;
         semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous,
         wavy: sinusoidal]

   Syn: curving.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. (Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost
      touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of
      orthotropous.

   Syn: campylotropous.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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