Retrorse

Definition: Retrorse

Retrorse

Adjective

1. (biology) bent or curved backward or downward; "leaves with retrorse barbs".

Etymology: Retrorse \Re*trorse"\, adjective. [Latin expression retrorsus, retroversus; retro back vertere, versum, to turn. Compare to Retrovert.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: antrorse (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Reversion	Adjective: reverting; Verb: regressive, revulsive, reactionary; retrorse.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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

Pig Latin		etrorseray

Vietnamese		lộn ngược (inversive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: resorter, restorer.
	Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: restore, terrors.
	-2 letters: errors, rerose, resort, rester, retore, retros, roster, sorter, stereo, terror, terser.
	-3 letters: erose, error, ester, reest, reset, retro, roset, rotes, serer, sorer, steer, stere, store, terse, tores, torse, trees.
	-4 letters: eros, errs, erst, ores, orts, rees, rest, rete, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, seer, sere, sore, sort, tees, toes, tore, torr.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-o-r-r-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: reporters, resorters, restorers, retorters, roisterer, terrorise.
	+2 letters: retrofires, retrogress, roisterers, terrorised, terrorises, terrorizes, terrorless.
	+3 letters: northerners, overreports, overstirred, repertoires, repertories, retrogrades, territories.
	+4 letters: agroforester, ecoterrorism, ecoterrorist, forequarters, orchestrater, overcorrects, perpetrators, proprietress, redecorators, refractories, regenerators, remunerators, respirometer, respirometry, resurrection, retrogressed, retrogresses, retrorockets, retroversion, retroviruses, torchbearers, underreports.
	+5 letters: agroforesters, baroreceptors, breaststroker, controverters, cotransferred, counterorders, ecoterrorisms, ecoterrorists, hyperreactors, interobserver, orchestraters, petrographers, proprietaries, reformatories, refrigerators, reorchestrate, respirometers, respirometric, resurrections, retransformed, retrogressing, retrogression, retrogressive, retroversions, stereoregular, tergiversator, tetrapyrroles, waterproofers.
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