Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RET'RO-FLEX
RET-RO-DUC'TIONRET'RO-FRACT, or RET-RO-FRAC'TED
RET'RO-FLEX, a. [L. retro, back, and flexus, bent.]
In botany, bent this way and that, or in different directions, usually in a distorted manner; as, a retroflex branch. – Martyn.
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