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postoccipital

postoccipital adjective: posterior to the occiput.

Adjective

postoccipital (comparative more postoccipital, superlative most postoccipital)

  1. posterior to the occiput
    • The nuchal or postoccipital bone (sometimes considered as the first dorsal scute) is fused with the dermocranium behind the supraoccipital bone.2015 December 31, “Current Occurrence of the Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus in Northern Spain: A New Prospect for Sturgeon Conservation in Western Europe”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of postoccipital

comparativemore postoccipital
superlativemost postoccipital

Origin of postoccipital

Borrowed from Latin postoccipitālis. By surface analysis, post- + occipital.

Words that rhyme with postoccipital

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Questions about postoccipital

What does postoccipital mean?
Postoccipital means posterior to the occiput.
What part of speech is postoccipital?
Postoccipital is an adjective.

Words near postoccipital in the dictionary

  1. postobituary
  2. postoblongata
  3. postobservation
  4. postobservations
  5. postobstructive
  6. postoccipital
  7. postocclusion
  8. postocclusive
  9. postoccurrence
  10. postocular
  11. postocularly

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