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posteroapical

posteroapical adjective: posterior to an apex.

Adjective

posteroapical (not comparable)

  1. posterior to an apex
    • One long seta in posteroapical comb of hind tibia.2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera, Empididae)”, in ZooKeys, →DOI

Origin of posteroapical

From postero- + apical.

Questions about posteroapical

What does posteroapical mean?
Posteroapical means posterior to an apex.
What part of speech is posteroapical?
Posteroapical is an adjective.

Words near posteroapical in the dictionary

  1. postero-
  2. postero-lateral
  3. postero-ventro-lateral
  4. postero-ventro-laterally
  5. posteroanterior
  6. posteroapical
  7. posteroapically
  8. posteroaxes
  9. posteroaxis
  10. posterobasal
  11. posterobucally

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