a postorbital bone or scale, as in certain reptiles
postorbital in American English
(poustˈɔrbɪtl)
adjective
Anatomy & Zoology
located behind the orbit or socket of the eye
Word origin
[1825–35; post- + orbital]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: breakdown, panda, relativity, spiritualism, structuralpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)
Examples of 'postorbital' in a sentence
postorbital
We found that hard feeders developed a broader general head width and postorbital region than soft feeders.
Jens De Meyer 2015, 'Diet-induced phenotypic plasticity in head morphology in European eel elvers (Anguillaanguilla): the effects of hard vs soft food', Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2015.03.00022/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)