postfurca

English

Etymology

From Late Latin post (“behind”) + furca (“a fork”).

Noun

postfurca (plural postfurcae)

1. (zoology) One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect

Related terms

• postfurcal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “postfurca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)