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Definition of Retral
1. Adjective. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
2. Adjective. At or near or toward the posterior.
Definition of Retral
1. situated toward the back [adj] : RETRALLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retral
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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