Retrorse

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Directed or turned backward or downward.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Bent backward or downward.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Bent backward or downward.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany and zoology, turned back; directed backward; retral.
  • In ornithology, turned in a direction the opposite of the usual one, without reference to any other line or plane; antrorse. See the quotation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. bent or curved backward or downward
    • Equivalent
    decurved   
     
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