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praeoral

praeoral is the archaic form of preoral.

Meaning of preoral

Adjective

preoral (not comparable)

  1. Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.
    • preoral aperture
  2. Prior to the oral stage, in Freudian psychoanalysis.
  3. Prior to an oral exam.

Questions about praeoral

What is praeoral the archaic form of?
Praeoral is the archaic form of preoral.

Words near praeoral in the dictionary

  1. praenuculids
  2. praeocular
  3. praeopercula
  4. praeopercular
  5. praeoperculum
  6. praeoral
  7. praeponderance
  8. praepositi
  9. praepositor
  10. praepositors
  11. praepositus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praeoral (page history and authors); preoral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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