postequatorial

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adjective

Behind an imaginary line or plane that divides the front and back of the body.

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Meanings

adjectivepostequatorial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBehind an imaginary line or plane that divides the front and back of the body.

    The postequatorial horn varies generally about 60; the breadth 50 — 60 […]

    1908, Plankton Investigations of the Danish Lakes, volumes 1-2, page 66
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    Lemnisci filiform and very long. 3 genital glands postequatorial and occupying scarcely one-fourth of body cavity. Testes very elongate.

    1925, National Institutes of Health Bulletin, numbers 141-145, page 165

Origin

From post- + equatorial.

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Chicago

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