porrection

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English

Etymology

Latin porrectio: compare French porrection.

Noun

porrection (plural porrections)

  1. (archaic) The act of stretching forth.
    • 1867, A. R. Wallace, letter to Charles Darwin:
      The two flaps on the free end of the underlip clasp little clusters of pollen grains between them and grind them behind by quick alternate porrections and retractions

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “porrection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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