retrofract

English

Etymology

retro- + Latin fractus, past participle of frangere (“to break”).

Adjective

retrofract (comparative more retrofract, superlative most retrofract)

1. (botany) Bent sharply back, so as to appear broken.

   a retrofract stem

Synonyms

• retrofracted

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “retrofract”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)