Definitions for posterior

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posterior pos·te·ri·or

Spelling: [po-steer-ee-er, poh-]

IPA: /pɒˈstɪər i ər, poʊ-/

Posterior is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 431 anagrams from letters in posterior (eiooprrst).

Definitions for posterior

noun

1. the hinder parts or rump of the body; buttocks.

adjective

1. situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
2. coming after in order, as in a series.
3. coming after in time; later; subsequent (sometimes followed by to).
4. Anatomy, Zoology. (in quadrupeds) pertaining to or toward the rear or caudal end of the body. (in humans and other primates) pertaining to or toward the back plane of the body, equivalent to the dorsal surface of quadrupeds.
5. Botany. toward the back and near the main axis, as the upper lip of a flower.

Origin of posterior

1525-35; Latin, comparative of posterus coming after, derivative of post after

Examples for posterior

His subjects paid their respects to him, kissing his posterior face.

His knowledge is eternal: it is not posterior to His essence.

The Cistudo enlarges the cavity with the help of its posterior legs.

Pleopoda: abdominal legs of larva: posterior legs of an adult.

The posterior metaphor clicked, and she began rapping about being “no size 2.”

We must acknowledge that the will of God is eternal and that it is not posterior to His essence.

Occipital margin: in Mallophaga, the posterior margin of the head.

The soft-palate is a structure which hangs from the posterior edge of the hard-palate.

As one story goes, Bianca Jagger, impressed, once made a plaster cast of Mara's posterior.

I generally remember school physical education, PE,  as a being a pain in the posterior.