RETROFRACT'ED, a. [L. retro, back, and fractus, broken.]
Reduced to hang down as it were by force so as to appear as if broken; as a retrofract peduncle.Bent back towards its insertion, as if it were broken.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.