bent back on itself, bent round
Latin word, found 20 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Aeneid 7.513: pastorale canit signum cornuque recurvo
Ovid, Heroides 4.79: Sive ferocis equi luctantia colla recurvas,
Ovid, Remedia amoris 210: Abdere sub parvis aera recurva cibis.
All forms of recurvus