Usually means: Bent or turned backward direction.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. retrorse: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrorse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retrorse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. retrorse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retrorse: Vocabulary.com
  6. retrorse: Wordnik
  7. retrorse: Wiktionary
  8. retrorse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. retrorse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. retrorse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Retrorse, retrorse: Dictionary.com
  12. Retrorse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. retrorse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. retrorse: Rhymezone
  15. Retrorse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. retrorse: FreeDictionary.org
  17. retrorse: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. retrorse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. retrorse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrorse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Retrorse: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retrorse)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Curved, pointed or oriented backward or downward.

Similar:
decurved, antrorse, retrochoanitic, retrogressive, retrognathic, retrogressional, reversional, retrograde, retroflective, retractive, more...

Opposite:
anterograde, prograde, forward-facing

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Similar:
decurved, antrorse, retrochoanitic, retrogressive, retrognathic, retrogressional, reversional, retrograde, retroflective, retractive, more...

Opposite:
anterograde, prograde, forward-facing



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