Meanings
adverbposticously (comparative more posticously, superlative most posticously)
comparative more posticously · superlative most posticously
- biologyPosteriorly.
When incomplete, the deficiency, so far as I know at present, appears always to take place posticously.
1836, Madras literary society, John Carnac Morris, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Edited by J. C. Morris, F. R. S. Secretary of the Madras Literary Society, &c., The Auspices of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 1836 - not comparablebiologyIn a manner with which, or a phytological conformation within which a physical aspect, especially the extrorse anther, is situated on the outer side of a filament.
Disc free, posticously dilated, fleshy. Ovary slightly laterally compressed, quadrangular (angles keeled), 2-celled g cells undivided, equal; ovules 2-seriate.
2014, William T. Thiselton-Dyer, Flora Capensis - Volume 4: Part 2 - Hydrophyllaceae to Pedalineae, Cambridge University Press, page 457
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