retracted
In heraldry, couped by a line diagonal to their main direction: said of ordinaries or subordinaries: thus, three bars or pales are retracted when cut off bendwise or bendwise sinister.
In entomology, permanently received or contained in a hollow of another part.
In botany, drawn back, as (sometimes) the radicle between the cotyledons; bent back.
Synonyms See
Simple past tense and past participle of
(of a sound) pronounced further back in the vocal tract
adjectivedrawn back and in
