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Meaning of "posticous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTICOUS

pɒˈstiːkəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTICOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Posticous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTICOUS

Aristarchus · carcase · carcass · caucus · circus · Dorcas · ficus · fucus · glaucous · Hipparchus · Leucas · Leukas · Lucas · monothecous · mucous · mucus · Ophiuchus · Orcus · raucous · submucous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTICOUS

postical · postiche · postie · postil · postilion · postillate · postillation · postillator · postilled · postiller · postilling · postillion · postimperial · postimpressionism · postimpressionist · postimpressionistic · postinaugural · postindustrial · postinfection · posting

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTICOUS

anticous · autoicous · caducous · couscous · dioicous · fuscous · lubricous · malacostracous · monoicous · muticous · ochroleucous · paroicous · synoicous · talcous · veneficous · ventricous · veridicous · verrucous · viscous · zincous

Synonyms and antonyms of posticous in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «posticous» into 25 languages

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The translations of posticous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «posticous» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

posticous
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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posticous
570 millions of speakers
en

English

posticous
510 millions of speakers
hi

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posticous
380 millions of speakers
ar

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posticous
280 millions of speakers
ru

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posticous
278 millions of speakers
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posticous
270 millions of speakers
bn

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posticous
260 millions of speakers
fr

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posticous
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Postulat
190 millions of speakers
de

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posticous
180 millions of speakers
ja

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posticous
130 millions of speakers
ko

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posticous
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Posticous
85 millions of speakers
vi

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posticous
80 millions of speakers
ta

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posticous
75 millions of speakers
mr

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पोस्टिकस
75 millions of speakers
tr

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posticous
70 millions of speakers
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posticous
65 millions of speakers
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posticous
50 millions of speakers
uk

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posticous
40 millions of speakers
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posticous
30 millions of speakers
el

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posticous
15 millions of speakers
af

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posticous
14 millions of speakers
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posticous
10 millions of speakers
no

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posticous
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTICOUS»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTICOUS»

Discover the use of posticous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to posticous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Honorable the East India ...
Ditto, more still, labellum seen between 2 posticous sepals. 6. Vertical view, a. a. a. sepals, b. b. petals, c. labellum, d. stamen. 7. Same, sepals spread out, same references. 8. More advanced, posticous view. 9. Ditto anticous, lateral sepals a ...
William Griffith, John McClelland, 1847
2
Ranunculaceae to Polygaleae
Sepnl: minute. Style shorter than the oblong ovary; stigma dilated. Capsule § in., ovate-oblong. VAR. 1 ; posticous petal dilated upwards very obtuse rnucronate or emarginate. Van. 2; posticons petal narrow concave acute—C. verticillaris, DC.
Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1872
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Not. pl. asiat:
The consequence is, that its real structure is to have the posticous 2 sepals united into one . To have two petals alternating with the posticous and antU cous sepal, and therefore the posticous petal wanting. Anticous stamen developed, the 2 ...
William Griffith, John McClelland, 1851
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The Families of the Monocotyledons: Structure, Evolution, ...
2) - separated by their bacciform and baccate fruits, respectively - the inflorescences are enclosed in spathes and the flowers are zygomorphic with three anticous, fertile stamens and three (or two) posticous staminodes. The major genera with ...
Harold Trevor Clifford, Peter Yeo, 1985
5
The Manuleae: a tribe of Scrophulariaceae
ANDROECIUM There are usually four, didynamous, fertile stamens and no trace of a staminode in the truly posticous position (but in the following text the stamens are designated posticous and anticous pair). The only exception is ...
Olive Mary Hilliard, 1994
6
Ranunculaceae to Polygaleae
1 / posticous petal dilated upwards very obtuse mucronate or emarginate. ... 1 ¡' radical leaves palmately 3-5-partite, cauline usually alternate 3-6-partite, flowers subumbellate, lower bracts 3-fid, posticous petal about equalling the curved spur.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1978
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The Madras Journal of Literature and Science
Pistillum— posticous sepal partly removed, anlicous one cut away, except at its base which is defiexed. 10. Ovarium — transverse section. 11. Ovulum. 12. Stigma. 13. Capsule. 14. The same after dehiscence. 15. Seed — viewed on its raptal ...
‎1836
8
Madras Journal of Literature and Science
Pistillum— posticous sepal partly removed, anticous one cut away, except at its base which is defiexed. 10. Ovarium — transverse section. 11. Ovulum. 12. Stigma. 13. Capsule. 14. The same after dehiscence. 15. Seed — viewed on its raptal ...
‎1836
9
Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire
1.; posticous sepal up to 2.5 X 1.6 cm., ovate, spinous-toothed; corolla blue, tube 1.8 cm. 1. Fls. Mar. Rubugua, Unyamwezi, Stuhlm. 496 (T.). 7. B. capitata Klotzsch; stems woody; lvs. up to 3 cm. 1.; infl. dense, capitate, unilateral, up to about ...
Joseph Burtt-Davy, A C Hoyle, 1949
10
Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te ...
The segments themselves too may be more or less distinctly unequal, and then the median or posticous segment is, as a rule, larger than the others; the latter themselves may also be unequal, and in that case the lateral ones are the smallest ...
Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Netherlands), 1941
REFERENCE
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