Word.ws English Dictionary

suranal

suranal adjective: above the anus or a body part associated with the anus.

Adjective

suranal (comparative more suranal, superlative most suranal)

  1. Above the anus or a body part associated with the anus.
    • There are three suranal plates, two along the axis connecting ambulacrum III with interambulacrum 5, and one to the right of this axis, towards ocular plate II.1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).: Geology series
    • The species which have suranal ducts are in genera that have frame ducts in the second-stage males, and therefore have been found consistentiy only in the Chionaspidini.1978, Israel Journal of Entomology - Volumes 12-14, page 94

Examples of suranal in a sentence

  • Confusion may occur with some Saturniidae - which however, have biordinal crochets (usually triordinal in butterfly larvae with scoli) - also no scoli on the head and no suranal 'tails'.1990, Otakar Kudrna, Introduction to Lepidopterology, →ISBN, page 91:
  • Larvae use setiform thoracic legs and a suranal hook to help propel themselves along, aided by silk.2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, →ISBN, page 654:

Forms of suranal

comparativemore suranal
superlativemost suranal

Origin of suranal

From sur- + anal.

Questions about suranal

What does suranal mean?
Suranal means above the anus or a body part associated with the anus.
How do you use suranal in a sentence?
Confusion may occur with some Saturniidae - which however, have biordinal crochets (usually triordinal in butterfly larvae with scoli) - also no scoli on the head and no suranal 'tails'.
What part of speech is suranal?
Suranal is an adjective.

Words near suranal in the dictionary

  1. Surami
  2. suramin
  3. suramin sodium
  4. Suramya
  5. suran
  6. suranal
  7. surance
  8. surangular
  9. surangulars
  10. surans
  11. suras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suranal (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “suranal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/suranal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.