Word Meanings - POSTORBITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n.

Related words: (words related to POSTORBITAL)

• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ORBIT
  The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. 2. An orb or ball. Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.
• ORBITELAE
  A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
• ORBITOLITES
  A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
• ORBITOSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.
• BEHIND
  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. 2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by
• BEHINDHAND
  1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
• ORBITUDE; ORBITY
  Orbation. Bp. Hall.
• ORBITONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
• ORBITAL
  Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index , in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
• ORBITUARY
  Orbital.
• SITUATION
  1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
• ORBITAR
  Orbital. Dunglison.
• ORBITOSPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
• POSTORBITAL
  Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• EXORBITANTLY
  In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
• INFRAORBITAL
  Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.
• EXORBITATE
  To go out of the track; to deviate. Bentley.
• ANTEORBITAL
  See ANTORBITAL
• INTERORBITAL
  Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.
• SORBITION
  The act of drinking or sipping.
• EXORBITANT
  to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See 1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive;
• ANTORBITAL
  Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.
• SORBITE
  A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit"ic, a.
• EXORBITANCE; EXORBITANCY
  A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden.