Recursant

In heraldry an animal show recursant, tergiant, or (rarely) tergant has its back shown to the viewer.[1][2] The terms are most often employed to describe an eagle in flight, but may also describe such animals as a crab, lobster, frog, lizard, scorpion, spider, turtle, or insect.

References
  1. Charles Norton Elvin (1889). "A Dictionary of Heraldry".
  2. "recursant".


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