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repandous

repandous adjective: bent outwards.

Adjective

repandous (comparative more repandous, superlative most repandous)

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

Forms of repandous

comparativemore repandous
superlativemost repandous

Origin of repandous

From repand + -ous.

Questions about repandous

What does repandous mean?
Repandous means bent outwards.
What part of speech is repandous?
Repandous is an adjective.

Words near repandous in the dictionary

  1. repalpating
  2. repalpation
  3. repand
  4. repandly
  5. repandodentate
  6. repandous
  7. repane
  8. repaned
  9. repanel
  10. repaneled
  11. repaneling

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