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Antedate :: Antedate (v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution..

Basion :: Basion (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

Flagellata :: Flagellata (v. t.) An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad..

Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

Suprasphenoidal :: Suprascalpulary (a.) Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula..

Procoelian :: Procoelian (a.) Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebrae, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex..

Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively..

Exaspidean :: Exaspidean (a.) Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds..

Anterior :: Anterior (a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior..

Mantis :: Mantis (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina..

Bicolligate :: Bicolligate (v. t.) Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

Dimyaria :: Dimyaria (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve..

Platycoelian :: Platycoelian (a.) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.

Anterior :: Anterior (a.) Before in time; antecedent.

Patagium :: Patagium (n.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Disk :: Disk (n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones..

Prosoma :: Prosoma (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod..

Tubicolae :: Tubicolae (n. pl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella..

Cardia :: Cardia (n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it..

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