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postmedial

postmedial adjective: located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.

Adjective

postmedial

  1. Located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.
    • Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow and white. Fore wing white, with the costal half to end of cell suffused with fuscous; an obscure fuscous triangular postmedial mark with its apex on inner margin, its inner limb with a black speck […]1896, George Francis Hampson, Moths
  2. Located after the medial element.
    • […] and PA *naːwal(a)w- and Y noːʔrep- 'following one behind the other' 055 (where PA adds postmedial *-(a)w, and Yurok the intransitive final -ep).1994, Studies in Native American Languages
    • The medial suffix, ...kon..., carries the meaning "day": e.g., n'ka-nîšokonin I'll be away two days (and nights). […] The suffix also occurs with a postmedial extension, ...ak: e.g., nîšokonakisiw niski-pîsim it is the second day of April […] literally, the goose moon is in a state (...si-) of day...2004, Spoken Cree, →ISBN, page 225

Antonyms of postmedial

Origin of postmedial

From post- + medial.

Words formed from postmedial

Words that rhyme with postmedial

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Questions about postmedial

What does postmedial mean?
Postmedial means located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.
What part of speech is postmedial?
Postmedial is an adjective.

Words near postmedial in the dictionary

  1. postmeasurement
  2. postmeasurements
  3. postmechanical
  4. postmedia
  5. postmediaeval
  6. postmedial
  7. postmedially
  8. postmedian
  9. postmediastinal
  10. postmedication
  11. postmedieval

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