frontad

Adverb

frontad (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Towards the front; anteriorly or frontward.
   • In the sections, a partial atrophy of the ascending root can be traced frontad from a point between the second and third cervical nerve to the level of exit of root.1883, E. C. Seguin, “Gudden's Atrophy Method: And a Summary of Its Results”, in Archives of Medicine, volume 10, number 3, section IX "Nuclei of the cranial nerves", page 245
   • Pitchy black, antenna, mandible and legs brick-red, femora brown, except base; pubescence silky, grey, slightly yellowish, dense on scutellum and metasternal episternum, and forming two narrow, transverse bands on elytra, the first before middle, irregular, produced frontad at suture, the second...1903 August, Karl Jordan, “African Cerambycidae”, in Novitates Zoologicae, volume 10, number 2, section 11 "Derolus dilatatus", page 136

   Synonyms:

   anteriad, anteriorly