postgenital

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ genital

Adjective[edit]

postgenital (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Behind the genital region.
  2. (botany) Appearing as an organism matures.
    • 2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279:
      The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).