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Definition of Retrorse
1. Adjective. Bent or curved backward or downward. "Leaves with retrorse barbs"
Definition of Retrorse
1. a. Bent backward or downward.
Definition of Retrorse
1. bent backward [adj]
Medical Definition of Retrorse
1. Directed backwards or downwards. Compare: antrorse. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrorse
Literary usage of Retrorse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Stem about 2 feet high, square,hispid along tlie ancles, the bristles generally
retrorse. Leaven nearly sessile, very oblong, ovate, acute, serrulate rather ..."
2. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... retrorse. Sepals and tepals ligulate-subacute, sometimes dilated towards their
apex, whitish with some ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Stems retrorse-scabrous on the angles; leaves with retrorse-scabrous nerves and
margin. Corolla 2-'( cm. long .... .... 6. C. patula. Corolla shorter. ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"C. americana, a. Flowers 1-», on slender peduncles or In loose inflorescences ce
Style not exserted. Stems smooth (rarely villous), not retrorse-scabrous on ..."
5. Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criticism by Edward Lee Greene (1906)
"... oblanceolate-elliptic, acute, 1 to 14 inches long, surpassing the internodes
and suberect, both faces somewhat glandular and retrorse- ..."
6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1906)
"... or +- Staminate spike usually peduncled; pistillate scattered, oblong or
globose, scarcely bent, ascending or horizontally spreading, hardly retrorse. ..."
7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"... midrib, and angles of the branches armed with spreading or retrorse ...
the bristles sometimes obscure and not retrorse : peduncles and pedicels fewer ..."
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