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postorbital en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English orbital English postorbital From post- + orbital.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Behind the orbit of the eye.
   • the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles

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Deriveds

frontopostorbital · squamosopostorbital

postorbital en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English orbital English postorbital From post- + orbital.

Meanings

1. A postorbital bone or scale.
   • In the absence (e.g., Figs. 31 b, 33, 44, 45, etc.) of the intertemporal and supratemporals, the parietals articulate directly with the squamosals and postorbitals; in the Chelonia (Fig. 30) and Crocodilia, also directly with the pterygoids. Fused in most late reptiles (e.g., Figs. 69, 72). 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles:

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