Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, hinder; back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Posterior.
- adjective Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.
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- adjective botany
posterior - adjective botany Situated on the outer side of a
filament ; said of anextrorse anther .
Etymologies
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Latin posticus.
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Examples
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It is curious as compared with Scitamineae, in which the posticous stamen is alone fully developed.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Sanders, singular in the inequality of the calyx and the great development of the posticous sepal.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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