Associations to the word «Retrorse»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

RETRORSE, adjective. Bent backward or downward.

Dictionary definition

RETRORSE, adjective. Bent or curved backward or downward; "leaves with retrorse barbs".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope