rectrix
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin rēctrīx (“one who directs”). By surface analysis, rector + -trix.
1
A governess; a rectoress.
2
A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control.
- Related terms
- rectricial
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