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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

prestrike en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + strike.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before a strike (work stoppage as protest).
  2. (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: