Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated behind the socket of the eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy and zoology: Situated on the hinder part of the bony brim of the orbit of the eye.
- Bounding the orbit behind, as a separate bone of sundry reptiles. See the noun.
- Lying backward (caudad) of the orbit of the eye, on the surface of the body; postocular: as, the postorbital part of the head.
- In entomology, lying behind the compound eyes of an insect.
- noun In herpetology, a separate bone which in some reptiles forms a posterior part of the orbit of the eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat. & Zoöl.) Situated behind the orbit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Behind the
orbit of the eye. - noun A postorbital bone or scale.
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Examples
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The most obvious difference is the "postorbital processes" of the groundhog skull that are missing in the beaver skull and which are present in mine.
A groundhog died in the woods and I found its skull AYDIN 2009
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The most obvious difference is the "postorbital processes" of the groundhog skull that are missing in the beaver skull and which are present in mine.
Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009
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Based on the apparently archaic nature of its postorbital bar, Buffetaut (1983) speculated that this animal might be a late-surviving relict form from the Cretaceous.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific Darren Naish 2006
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In combination with forward directed postorbital horns and massive fan-shaped frill, cranial epi-ossifications may have enhanced visual display and species communication in Triceratops.
Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications ReBecca Foster 2008
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In combination with forward directed postorbital horns and massive fan-shaped frill, cranial epi-ossifications may have enhanced visual display and species communication in Triceratops.
Archive 2008-04-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Based on the apparently archaic nature of its postorbital bar, Buffetaut (1983) speculated that this animal might be a late-surviving relict form from the Cretaceous.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A complete postorbital bar is seen elsewhere in Mesozoic birds: confuciusornithids and the enantiornithine
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Darren Naish none@example.com 2010
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Both the parapithecids and extinct and extant platyrrhines show extensive postorbital closure, which is not found in primates from North America (Fleagle and Kay, 1997).
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Gong et al. (2004) identified prefrontals and a robust postorbital, for example, but the excellent photos they provided show that the 'prefrontals' may just be parts of the nasals
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Darren Naish none@example.com 2010
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The smallest epiparietals, episquamosals and postorbital horns reveal the youngest histological tissues.
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