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postgenital

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ genital.

Adjective

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postgenital (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Behind the genital region.
  2. (botany) Appearing as an organism matures.
    • 2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279:
      The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).