retroversion
noun
a looking or turning back.
retroverted
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a word derived from
retroversion.
Example Sentences
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Another leaped, and landed with his feet on the other bank, his haunches in the water, and his rider curled round his neck, and glaring out between his retroverted ears.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
Thus absorbed was I in thought When there came to me the echo Of a sigh half heard, for half To its owner retroverted.
From The Wonder-Working Magician by Denis Florence MacCarthy
A view of the interior 687 of the sub-pallial chamber, as seen when the mantle-skirt is retroverted and the observer faces in the direction indicated by the reference line passing from e in fig.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
The epidermoid papillæ are of a nature similar to those retroverted prominences so remarkable on the tongue of the cat; as well as in the lion, and some other animals.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
He ate the oats, but with retroverted eye watched her.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
