Retroflex
adjective
1.
bent backward; exhibiting retroflexion.
2.
Phonetics. articulated with the tip of the tongue curled upward and back against or near the juncture of the hard and soft palates; cacuminal; cerebral; coronal.
adjective
1.
bent or curved backwards
2.
(phonetics) of, relating to, or involving retroflexion
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