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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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retroflex

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb retroflex has 2 senses

Adjective retroflex has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

retroflexa. [Pref. retro- + L. flectere, flexum, to bend, to turn.].
     Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

retroflex, adj. (also retroflexed)
1 Anat., Med., & Bot. turned backwards.
2 Phonet. = CACUMINAL.

Derivative
retroflexion n.
Etymology
L retroflectere retroflex- (as RETRO-, flectere bend)

THESAURUS

retroflex

accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arch, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, backslide, barytone, bend, bend back, bilabial, bow, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, cock, consonant, consonantal, continuant, crook, curl, curve, decurve, deflect, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dome, dorsal, embow, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fall astern, fall behind, flat, flex, front, get behind, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, go backwards, go behind, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hook, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, inflect, intonated, jerk back, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, lapse, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, loop, lose ground, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, pull back, recede, recidivate, recurve, reflect, reflex, regress, relapse, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, round, rounded, sag, segmental phoneme, semivowel, slip back, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, swag, sweep, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, turn, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, vault, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, wind
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