单词 | postocular |
释义 | postocularadj.n. Anatomy and Zoology. A. adj. Situated behind the eye. Opposed to preocular. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > situated near subocular1801 interocular1826 preocular1826 postocular1830 antorbital1837 anteocular1846 periophthalmic1886 1830 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 464 Rostrum..carinated on each side of the base, and terminating in a post-ocular spine. 1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 209 Parallel curved white superciliary and postocular stripes. 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Postocular lobes, anterior projections of the lower sides of the prothorax [in insects], impinging on the eyes when the head is retracted. 1944 Amer. Midland Naturalist 31 347 A transverse row of erect bristle-like setae between the postocular tubercles. 1992 Geol. Mag. 129 544/2 The Protopeltura appears to be a primitive species with a distinct preglabellar field, but shows the typical convex curvature of the postocular facial suture. B. n. In a snake or lizard: a scale situated immediately behind the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > parts of atterc1000 fingera1398 spear1608 pecten1713 supraciliary1838 postocular1856 patagium1857 podotheca1864 pretemporal1866 keeled scale1870 postnasal1871 prenasal1886 supracoracoid1897 hedonic gland1901 guanophore1924 chorio-allantois1933 1856 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1854–5 7 95 In the genus Sonora, there are three postoculars, and two nasal plates on each side with the nostril between them. 1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 1300 Preoculars two, both subquadrate; the superior the larger; the inferior resting on the fourth superior labial. Postoculars three, the median the smallest (the apex of the inferior cut off to form a fourth on one side). 1957 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright Handbk. Snakes U.S. & Canada (1994) II. 620 5th upper labial separated from eye by lowest postocular. 1993 Copeia 987 A series of meristic traits in the garter snake..(six head scale counts: loreals, supra- and infralabials, pre- and postoculars, temporals..). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1830 |
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