Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

posticously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pos-ti-cous-ly
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

adv

In a manner with which, or a phytological conformation within which a physical aspect, especially the extrorse anther, is situated on the outer side of a filament.

Example Sentences

"When incomplete, the deficiency, so far as I know at present, appears always to take place posticously."
"Disc free, posticously dilated, fleshy. Ovary slightly laterally compressed, quadrangular (angles keeled), 2-celled g cells undivided, equal; ovules 2-seriate."

Etymology

From posticous + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: posticous
Suffix: -ly

Inflected Forms

more posticously (comparative) most posticously (superlative)

Questions

What does posticously mean?: Posteriorly.
Where does posticously come from?: From posticous + -ly.

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