Crossword-Solution: RETROVERT 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

See Retrovert.] Defn: A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

The second has for its pair of appendages the small pair of limbs which in all living Arachnids is either chelate or retrovert (as in spiders), and is known as the chelicerae.

Mygalomorphae.--The plane of the articulation of the appendages of the 1st pair to the prosoma (the retrovert) vertical, the basal segment projecting straight forwards at its proximal end, the distal segment or fang closing backwards in a direction subparallel to the long axis of the body.

The "retrovert" or bent-back first pair of appendages is provided with a poison gland opening on the fang or terminal segment.

Hexapoda and Arachnida); the penultimate joint with a process equal in length to the last joint, so as to form a nipping organ (chelae of Crustaceans and Arachnids); the last joint reflected and movable on the penultimate, as the blade of a clasp-knife on its handle (the retrovert, toothed so as to act as a biting jaw in the Hexapod _Mantis_, the Crustacean _Squilla_ and others); with the last joint produced into a needle-like stabbing process in spiders.