Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RET-RO-MIN'GENT
RET-RO-MIN'GENTRET-RO-PUL'SIVE
RET-RO-MIN'GENT, n.
In zoology, an animal that discharges its urine backward. The retromingents are a division of animals whose characteristic is that they discharge their urine backward, both the male and female. – Encyc.
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