anteriorly - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
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  • 1.4 Adverb
    * 1.4.1 Antonyms
    * 1.4.2 Derived terms
    * 1.4.3 Translations

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• anteriourly (obsolete, rare)

From anterior + -ly.

• Hyphenation: an‧te‧ri‧or‧ly

anteriorly (comparative more anteriorly, superlative most anteriorly)

1. before (in time)
2. in front (in position)
3. towards the anterior
   • 1977, Murray John Copeland, Early Paleozoic Ostracoda from Southwestern District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory, page 30:
     Margin of dolon curling smoothly to distal margin of velum both anteriorly and posteriorly, but dolonal margins not in contact when valves closed.
   • 2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045:
     In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .

• posteriorly

• dorsoanteriorly

• subanteriorly

• superoanteriorly

• ventroanteriorly

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• English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)
• English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)
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