Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.
Of or pertaining to reading something backwards.
Origin
From Latin cancer ("crab") + -īnus, as if from *cancrīnus. The poetry sense comes from the fact that most species of crab can walk sideways, either left or right.
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