adjective

• Curved downward.

  ‘the slightly down-curved bill of a starling’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Pittas are small to medium sized birds (15 to 29 cm long, 42 to 210 g) with long legs, short tails and strong, downcurved bills.’
  • ‘The sunbird-asities have long downcurved bills that are well suited for extracting nectar from flowers.’
  • ‘They're terrific birds with a long upcurved beak and if you contrast those to the migratory waders in front of them, the big Eastern Curlews, they have tremendously long but downcurved beaks.’
  • ‘The horn becomes greyish brown, short, strongly downcurved.’