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postspiracular

postspiracular adjective: posterior to a spiracle.

Adjective

postspiracular (not comparable)

  1. posterior to a spiracle

Origin of postspiracular

From post- + spiracular.

Questions about postspiracular

What does postspiracular mean?
Postspiracular means posterior to a spiracle.
What part of speech is postspiracular?
Postspiracular is an adjective.

Words near postspiracular in the dictionary

  1. postsphenoid
  2. postsphenoidal
  3. postsphenoids
  4. postspinal
  5. postspinfection
  6. postspiracular
  7. postsplenectomy
  8. postsplenial
  9. postsplenic
  10. postsquamosal
  11. poststack

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