postequatorial

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ equatorial.

Adjective

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postequatorial (not comparable)

  1. Behind an imaginary line or plane that divides the front and back of the body.
    • 1908, Plankton Investigations of the Danish Lakes, volumes 1-2, page 66:
      The postequatorial horn varies generally about 60; the breadth 50 — 60 []
    • 1925, National Institutes of Health Bulletin, numbers 141-145, page 165:
      Lemnisci filiform and very long. 3 genital glands postequatorial and occupying scarcely one-fourth of body cavity. Testes very elongate.