Posterior is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POSTERIOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the buttocks
• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• a tooth situated at the back of the mouth
• buttocks
• a person's buttocks.
ADJECTIVE:
• coming after
• further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end
• relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth
• coming after in time or order; later
• Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
• Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
• At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
• On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
• located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure
• coming at a subsequent time or stage
• behind, at the back of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• later in time; subsequent

Words related to POSTERIOR

buttocks16 podex15 posteriorly16 posteriors12

Words that contain POSTERIOR

posteriors12 posteriorly16 posteriority17 posteriorities16

How to use POSTERIOR in a sentence

• It is a peculiarity of this serpent, that when held suspended by his posterior extremity he can not raise his head to a level with his tail.
• Here the posterior portions of the sole, those portions between the wall and the bars, fall very largely in the same plane as the wearing surface of the bars and the wall.
• It follows from this that his operations are confined more to the posterior than the anterior parts of the foot, and that the toe is therefore left too long.
• A wound in the anterior position is, as we have said, far less serious, and one in the posterior region of the foot even less serious still.
• Heretofore the distinction of degrees in relation to greater and less has been known, but not in relation to prior and posterior, 532.
• That which is posterior exists from what is prior, as it exists from what is prior, 330.
• Precept has generally been posterior to performance.
• Its contents are nearly all massed in the posterior half, the comparatively clear portion invariably pointing in advance.
• They place themselves beneath at the posterior parts of the man, and from thence they speak towards the higher parts.
• But the protective colouring appears on the posterior wing and on the tip of the anterior, TO PRECISELY THE DISTANCE TO WHICH IT IS LEFT UNCOVERED.
• In the blackest specimens the black tips are wanting on the posterior portion of the back.
• It is difficult to distinguish the anterior and posterior extremities of the body.
• All that we can postulate as established is that they wrote posterior to Ibn Mukaffa.
• The southern tower is surmounted by a lofty stone spire, probably of a date posterior to the part below.
• The marginal rows are placed in a plane posterior to the central, and as above noticed, the cells of which they are composed are widely different from the central.
• Athenagoras, in addressing his book, in times posterior to these, to the emperors M.

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