Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated behind the mouth: specifically applied to certain of the visceral arches and clefts of the vertebrate embryo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Situated behind, or
posterior to, the mouth
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
post- + oral
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Examples
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Wait till we hear the Boy of Biskop reeling around your postoral lector!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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