Repandous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Bent outwards. obsolete

    "though they be drawn repandous, or convexedly crooked in one piece, yet the Dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed in another."

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"though they be drawn repandous, or convexedly crooked in one piece, yet the Dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed in another."

Etymology

From repand + -ous.

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