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retromingent, a. (and n.)|riːtrəʊ-, rɛtrəʊˈmɪndʒənt|
[f. retro- + mingent a.]
That urinates backwards. Also as n., an animal which does this.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 147 Except it be in Retromingents, and such as couple backward. [1727–38Chambers Cycl., Retromingents, in natural history, a class or division of animals, whose characteristic is, that they stale..backwards.]
1704Phil. Trans. XXIV. 1585 If (as in other Creatures that are retromingent also) the Penis here had been fastned to the Ossa Pubis. 1747Gentl. Mag. 209/1 He is a retromingent animal, and consequently retrogenerative. 1817Keatinge Trav. I. 318 The nobler animals, the lion, the elephant, are retromingent. 1874Van Buren Dis. Genit. Org. 39 The patient is usually retromingent.
Hence retroˈmingently adv. (Ogilvie, 1882). |