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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Directed or turned backward or downward.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany and zoology, turned back; directed backward; retral.
  2. In ornithology, turned in a direction the opposite of the usual one, without reference to any other line or plane; antrorse. See the quotation.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Bent backward or downward.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Bent backward or downward.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. bent or curved backward or downward

Etymologies

  1. Latin retrorsus, retroversus; retro back + vertere, versum, to turn. Compare retrovert. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin retrōrsus, from retrōversus : retrō-, retro- + versus, past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The fish you really have to watch out for is the candirú, a toothpick-shaped catfish that wriggles into bodily orifices, throws out retrorse spines, and can be removed only through surgery.”

    The Gasping Forest

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equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘retrorse’

  1. decurved

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  1. retrograde
  2. metachoanite
  1. metachoanites
  2. postrorse
  1. retral
  2. retrorsely
  1. retroserrate
  2. retroserrulate
  1. extrorse
  2. barb
  1. stegosauridæ

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