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postoral

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pos-toral
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English oral English postoral From post- + oral.

Inflected Forms

more postoral (comparative) most postoral (superlative) post-oral (alternative)

Antonyms

preoral

Rhymes With

oral post-oral pre-oral coral floral pastoral mayoral choral vicar-choral aural amoral binaural

Questions

What does postoral mean?
Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth
Where does postoral come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English oral English postoral From post- + oral.

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