repand

See also: répand

English

Etymology

From Latin repandus (“bent backward, turned up”), from re- (“re-”) + pandus (“bent, crooked”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænd

Adjective

repand (comparative more repand, superlative most repand)

1. (botany, zoology) Having a slightly undulating margin.
2. Bent or curved backward or upward.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “repand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• pander