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Meaning of "retrorse" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RETRORSE

From Latin retrōrsus, shortened form of retrōversus turned back, from retro- + vertere to turn.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RETRORSE

retrorse  [rɪˈtrɔːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RETRORSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Retrorse is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RETRORSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of retrorse in the English dictionary

The definition of retrorse in the dictionary is pointing backwards or in a direction opposite to normal.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RETRORSE


antrorse
ænˈtrɔːs
coarse
kɔːs
corse
kɔːs
course
kɔːs
dextrorse
ˈdɛkstrɔːs
discourse
ˈdɪskɔːs
divorce
dɪˈvɔːs
endorse
ɪnˈdɔːs
enforce
ɪnˈfɔːs
extrorse
ɛkˈstrɔːs
force
fɔːs
horse
hɔːs
introrse
ɪnˈtrɔːs
matter-of-course
ˈmætərəvˌkɔːs
outsource
ˌaʊtˈsɔːs
resource
rɪˈzɔːs
sauce
sɔːs
sinistrorse
ˈsɪnɪˌstrɔːs
source
sɔːs
workforce
ˈwɜːkˌfɔːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RETRORSE

retropack
retroperitoneal
retrophilia
retrophiliac
retropulsion
retropulsive
retroreflection
retroreflective
retroreflector
retrorocket
retrorsely
retrosexual
retrospect
retrospection
retrospective
retrospectively
retrospectiveness
retroussage
retroverse
retroversion

WORDS THAT END LIKE RETRORSE

Crazy Horse
dark horse
for the worse
go from bad to worse
iron horse
Master of the Horse
Norse
put the cart before the horse
quarter horse
racehorse
remorse
seahorse
Tennessee Walking Horse
to get off your high horse
Trojan Horse
white horse
Whitehorse
wild horse
workhorse
worse

Synonyms and antonyms of retrorse in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «retrorse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RETRORSE

Find out the translation of retrorse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of retrorse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «retrorse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反折
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

retrorse
570 millions of speakers

English

retrorse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

retrorse
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

retrorse
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

книзу
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

retrorse
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

retrorse
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

retrorse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Retrorse
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

retrorse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

retrorse
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

retrorse
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Retrorse
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

retrorse
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

retrorse
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रीट्रोरेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

retrorse
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

retrorse
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

retrorse
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

донизу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

retrorse
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

retrorse
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

retrorse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

retrorse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

retrorse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of retrorse

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RETRORSE»

The term «retrorse» is used very little and occupies the 158.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RETRORSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «retrorse» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «retrorse» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about retrorse

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETRORSE»

Discover the use of retrorse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to retrorse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mosquitoes of North America (north of Mexico)
175 Claspette filament angularly expanded near middle of the convex side; basal lobe of basistyle conical. melanimon Dyar, p. 203 29 (26). Claspette filament with a spinelike retrorse projection or barb on the convex side forming an acute ...
Stanley J. Carpenter, Walter J. LaCasse, 1974
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The Criconematidae of the World: Identification of the ...
Juveniles similar to female, but with scalloped posterior edges on the retrorse annuli. Described from Aldabra atoll in the western Indian ocean. Mesocriconema brevistylus (Singh & Khera, 1976) Loof & De Grisse, 1989 (Fig. Mesocriconema 9 ...
Etienne Geraert, 2010
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Plant Systematics
reclined antrorse retrorse . connlvent 15” - i \ descending reflexed erect pendant/ depressed pendulous FIGURE 9.56 Orientation. pressed closely to axis downward, with divergence angle of 0 15 ° from lower axis. Other orientation terms are ...
Michael G. Simpson, 2011
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Biosystematic Monograph of the Genus Cucumis ...
The pubescence on stems, petioles, leaf blades, tendrils, and both flower and fruit pedicels, is either antrorse-strigose or retrorse-strigose with hairs tightly appressed in some specimens and mixed, loosely appressed and suberect hairs in ...
Joseph H. Kirkbride, 1993
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Flora of the Sydney Region
Hairs on stem retrorse or irregularly spreading or absent or in one species loosely antrorse. Sepals glabrous or simple-pubescent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 Hairs on the stem mostly very short, retrorse. Leaves up to 15 mm long.
Belinda Jane Pellow, Murray James Henwood, Roger Charles Carolin, 2009
6
A California Flora
Prostrate, branched from base, the stems slender, 2-6 cm. long, retrorse- pubescent; lvs. 2-4 cm. long, linear and entire, or broader and pinnately few- lobed, the lobes linear, remote; bracts pinnate, often proliferated, ciliate- membranous below; ...
Philip Alexander Munz, 1973
7
The Genus Galium (Rubiaceae) in Mexico and Central America
Climbing perennial herb, the stems 1-9 dm long; stems and leaves set with retrorse aculeolate hairs; leaves mostly 6(5-12) at a node, 1-nerved, linear to broadly oblanceolate, commonly 1-2 cm long; glandular cells none; flowers perfect, ...
Lauramay T. Dempster, 1978
8
Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae
Stems several-many, ascending from decumbent base, usually un- branched, slender, 10-40(-70) cm, with short, fine, dense, retrorse or curled grayish white hairs, rarely subglabrous, typically not glandular but occasionally somewhat ...
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, 2003
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Flowering Plants: Smartweeds to Hazelnuts
Stems retrorse prickly. 2. Leaves hastate or sagittate; plants scandent _ _ Tracaulon 2. Leaves tapering to base; plants not scandent _ Persicaria 1 . Stems not retrorse prickly. 3. Stems twining or trailing, neither erect nor prostrate _ _ Fallopia 3 ...
Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Paul M. Thomson, 2009
10
Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: Bignonias to Sunflowers
... awns 2, retrorse-hispid, 5 mm. long or less. Moist places and roadsides; Quebec southward to North Carolina and Missouri and westward to Washington, Oregon, and in California in the Sacramento Valley, where it apparently is introduced; ...
Roxana Stinchfield Ferris, LeRoy Abrams, 1960

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RETRORSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term retrorse is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dueling teens declared spelling bee co-champs
Yesterday, he correctly spelled retrorse, which means to bend backward or downward, and pneumatocyst, a submerged or exposed root. Getting to the bee, ... «Columbus Dispatch, May 14»
2
Three Ohioans still standing in national spelling bee
But Max Danner, 14, of Lewis Center, near Columbus, successfully spelled "retrorse." Definition: bent backward. Joseph Cusi Delamerced , 14, of Cincinnati, ... «The Plain Dealer, May 14»
3
How to grow
The razor-sharp leaves can shred the hands thanks to the retrorse spines that allow you to put your hand in, but grip it on the way out. (Cortar is Spanish for cut.) ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Retrorse [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/retrorse>. May 2024 ».
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