retroflex
adjective /ˈretrəfleks/
/ˈretrəfleks/
- (medical
) (of a part of the body医学 ) turned backwards身体部位 后屈的 - (phonetics
) (of a speech sound语音学 ) produced with the end of the tongue turned up against the hard palate语音 卷舌的
词源late 18th cent.: from Latin retroflex- ‘bent backwards’, from the verb retroflectere, from retro ‘backwards’ + flectere ‘to bend’.