postequatorial

English

Etymology

post- +‎ equatorial

Adjective

postequatorial (not comparable)

1. Behind an imaginary line or plane that divides the front and back of the body.
   • 1908, Plankton Investigations of the Danish Lakes, volumes 1-2, page 66:

     The postequatorial horn varies generally about 60; the breadth 50 — 60 […]

   • 1925, National Institutes of Health Bulletin, numbers 141-145, page 165:

     Lemnisci filiform and very long. 3 genital glands postequatorial and occupying scarcely one-fourth of body cavity. Testes very elongate.