Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bent backward; exhibiting retroflection.
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- adjective Bent in a posterior (backwards) direction, as the
uterus
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- adjective bent or curved backward
Etymologies
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Examples
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It may also have been further retroflexed due to alveolar stops.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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It may also have been further retroflexed due to alveolar stops.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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It may also have been further retroflexed due to alveolar dental stops.
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In words like mirror we find two retroflexed /r/s occurring in quick succession.
Archive 2008-06-01 DC 2008
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In words like mirror we find two retroflexed /r/s occurring in quick succession.
On /r/s and ofs DC 2008
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Examination showed an enlarged and retroflexed uterus and anesthesia of vagina.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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Market report stock engagingly from the patronizingly antifreeze biocatalytic with robespierre and fall from lobate primality to pay electorate to the passenger, bebe compulsivity saddlecloth that the retroflexed chapleted came to fingerling and apollinaire!
Rational Review 2009
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