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postcoronoid

postcoronoid adjective: behind the coronoid.

Adjective

postcoronoid (not comparable)

  1. Behind the coronoid
    • The tooth-bearing portion of the lower jaws are short so that the postcoronoid portion is longer than the precoronoid one.2015 September 11, “New Data on the Clevosaurus (Sphenodontia: Clevosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of postcoronoid

From post- + coronoid.

Questions about postcoronoid

What does postcoronoid mean?
Postcoronoid means behind the coronoid.
What part of speech is postcoronoid?
Postcoronoid is an adjective.

Words near postcoronoid in the dictionary

  1. postcoracoid
  2. postcornu
  3. postcornua
  4. postcoronary
  5. postcoronavirus
  6. postcoronoid
  7. postcorporate
  8. postcorrective
  9. postcorrelation
  10. postcosmic
  11. postcostal

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