Definition of Retral

1. Adjective. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.

Exact synonyms: Retrograde
Similar to: Backward

2. Adjective. At or near or toward the posterior.
Similar to: Posterior

Definition of Retral

1. situated toward the back [adj] : RETRALLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retral

retrain
retrainable
retrained
retrainee
retrainees
retrainer
retrainers
retraining
retrains
retrait
retraite
retraites
retraits
retraitt
retraitts
retral (current term)
retrally
retranscription
retransduction
retransfer
retransferred
retransferring
retransfers
retransform
retransformed
retransforming
retransforms
retranslate
retranslated
retranslates

Literary usage of Retral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. World-life; Or, Comparative Geology by Alexander Winchell (1888)
"The relative amounts of retardation of the whole body, and retardation or retral translation of the surface, will be determined by the viscosity of the film ..."

2. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... into a set of ' retral processes' ; and these pro- ler the ridges of the shell ... retral processes from the posterior margin of one of the segments; b, ..."

3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1848)
"The rings, though in a general sense transverse to the axis of the tube, are undulated by forward and retral curves; and these are so arranged, ..."

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