prestrike en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + strike.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Before a strike (work stoppage as protest).
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(not-comparable) Before the striking motion of a snake.
The nine phases may be clustered into three subgroups: prestrike, strike, and poststrike behavior.
1992, Carl Gans, Philip Steven Ulinski, Biology of the Reptilia, page 435: