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Retroflex

Definitions: Retroflex

Retroflex

Adjective

1. Bent or curved backward.

2. (linguistics) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate.

Verb

1. Bend or turn backward.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Retroflex

Synonyms: cacuminal (adj), retroflexed (adj). (additional references)

Modern Translations: Retroflex

Language		Translations for "retroflex"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		ретрофлексиран, обърнат назад (reflective, retrograde, retrorse, retrospective), извит назад. (various references)

Chinese		兒化韻 (retroflex final). (various references)

Farsi		قفارفتن زبان , خمیده بعقب , خمیدن (Bend), برگشتن (Backslide, Comeback, Rebound, Recrudesce, Return, Revert, Sheer, Topple, Untread). (various references)

Manx		cooyl-chroymmit. (various references)

Pig Latin		etroflexray

Spanish		vuelto hacia atrás. (various references)

Ukranian		ретрофлексивний, загнутий назад. (various references)

Vietnamese		gập ra phía sau (retroflected, retroflexed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Retroflex

Derivations
	Words beginning with "retroflex": retroflexion, retroflexions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Retroflex" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beroflex, metroplex, reprofile, reprofiled, Reyrolle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Retroflex

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-o-r-r-t-x"
	-3 letters: ferrel, ferret, flexor, floret, lefter, lofter, refelt, reflet, reflex, retore, rolfer, telfer.
	-4 letters: exert, extol, fetor, fleer, fleet, forte, freer, frere, frore, ofter, oxter, refel, refer, relet, retro, telex.
	-5 letters: feel, feet, felt, fere, fete, flee, flex, floe, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, leer, leet, left, loft, lore, orle, reef, reel, reft, rete.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-o-r-r-t-x"
	+3 letters: retroflexion.
	+4 letters: retroflexions.
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Alternative Orthography: Retroflex

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 74 72 6F 66 6C 65 78

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-. . - .-. --- ..-. .-.. . -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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