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English
Etymology
From posticous + -ly.
Adverb
posticously (comparative more posticously, superlative most posticously)
- (chiefly botany) Posteriorly.
- 1836, Madras literary society, John Carnac Morris, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Edited by J. C. Morris, F. R. S. Secretary of the Madras Literary Society, &c., The Auspices of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 1836
- When incomplete, the deficiency, so far as I know at present, appears always to take place posticously.
- (botany, not comparable) In a manner with which, or a phytological conformation within which a physical aspect, especially the extrorse anther, is situated on the outer side of a filament.