repandous

English

Etymology

repand +‎ -ous

Adjective

repandous (comparative more repandous, superlative most repandous)

  1. (obsolete) Bent outwards.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 427:
      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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