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posttemporal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
post-tem-po-ral
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.

noun

A posttemporal bone.

Etymology

From post- + temporal.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

postemporal (alternative) posttemporals (plural)

Rhymes With

temporal spatiotemporal frontotemporal intertemporal supratemporal atemporal infratemporal bitemporal extratemporal cotemporal pretemporal nontemporal

Questions

What does posttemporal mean?
Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.
Where does posttemporal come from?
From post- + temporal.

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