0 past simple and past participle of curl
1 to make something into the shape of a curl, or to grow or change into this shape:
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled like serpents about her ankles.
The trophamnion was translucent, and the larva could be observed within it, lying with the tip of the abdomen curled up.
The curled solutions could either be unstable (if their energy is a maximum) or metastable (if the energy is a local minimum).
At its basal (proximal) end, the plasma membrane is curled back upon itself forming two fibrous arching membranes (figs 2a, 3a).
This looks like a large curled object whose section depends on the source's shape.
All animals that tolerate anhydrobiosis or desiccation as adults adopt distinctive or curled shapes as they dry.
All fingers were multijointed and the finger joints were linked so that they curled progressively as the hand closed.
The genotype curl\curl determines a curled structure of the leaflets and stipules and is easily identified in the seedling stage.
