postmedial

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post- +‎ medial

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postmedial

  1. (biology) Located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.
    • 1896, George Francis Hampson, Moths:
      Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow and white. Fore wing white, with the costal half to end of cell suffused with fuscous; an obscure fuscous triangular postmedial mark with its apex on inner margin, its inner limb with a black speck []
  2. (linguistics) Located after the medial element.
    • 1994, Studies in Native American Languages:
      [] and PA *naːwal(a)w- and Y noːʔrep- 'following one behind the other' 055 (where PA adds postmedial *-(a)w, and Yurok the intransitive final -ep).
    • 2004, Spoken Cree, →ISBN, page 225:
      The medial suffix, ...kon..., carries the meaning "day": e.g., n'ka-nîšokonin I'll be away two days (and nights). [] The suffix also occurs with a postmedial extension, ...ak: e.g., nîšokonakisiw niski-pîsim it is the second day of April [] literally, the goose moon is in a state (...si-) of day two.

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