retic
English
editEtymology
editShortening.
Noun
editretic (plural retics)
- (informal) Reticulated python.
- 2002, Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Designer Reptiles and Amphibians:
- Perhaps the simplest of the traits bred for is the perpetuation of a yellow head. Retics having this also often have a degree of brighter than normal yellow in their otherwise normal body pattern.
- (medicine, informal) Reticulocyte.