anaclastic
adjective
an·a·clas·tic
¦anə¦klastik
1
: capable of springing back
the bottom of an anaclastic glass springs out or in when air is forced into or drawn from the glass
2
: relating to or constituting anaclasis
Word History
Etymology
Greek anaklastos bent back, reflected (from anaklan to bend back, reflect, from ana- + klan to break, deflect) + English -ic
First Known Use
1753, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- hystero-salpingo-oophorectomy
- hysterocatalepsies
- hysterocatalepsyes
- hysterocatalepsys
- hysterocrystalline
- hysteroid
- hysterology
- hysteromorphous
- hysteron proteron
- hysterophyte
- hysterosalpingogram
- hysterosalpingographies
- hysterosalpingography
- hysteroscope
- hysteroscopic
- hysteroscopies
- hysteroscopy
- hysterotely
- hysterothecium
- hysterotomies
- hysterotomy
- Hystricidae
- hystricidaes
- hystricoid
- Hystricoidea