repandous

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English

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Etymology

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From repand +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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repandous (comparative more repandous, superlative most repandous)

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