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posticously

posticously adverb: posteriorly.

Adverb

posticously (comparative more posticously, superlative most posticously)

  1. Posteriorly.
    • When incomplete, the deficiency, so far as I know at present, appears always to take place posticously.1836, Madras literary society, John Carnac Morris, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Edited by J. C. Morris, F. R. S. Secretary of the Madras Literary Society, &c., The Auspices of the...
  2. (not comparable) In a manner with which, or a phytological conformation within which a physical aspect, especially the extrorse anther, is situated on the outer side of a filament.
    • Disc free, posticously dilated, fleshy. Ovary slightly laterally compressed, quadrangular (angles keeled), 2-celled g cells undivided, equal; ovules 2-seriate.2014, William T. Thiselton-Dyer, Flora Capensis - Volume 4: Part 2 - Hydrophyllaceae to Pedalineae, Cambridge University Press, page 457

Forms of posticously

comparativemore posticously
superlativemost posticously

Origin of posticously

From posticous + -ly.

Questions about posticously

What does posticously mean?
Posticously means posteriorly.
What part of speech is posticously?
Posticously is an adverb.

Words near posticously in the dictionary

  1. postically
  2. postiche
  3. postiches
  4. posticipate
  5. posticous
  6. posticously
  7. postictal
  8. postictally
  9. posticteric
  10. postideological
  11. postie

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