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Etymology

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From Late Latin post (behind) + furca (a fork).

Noun

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postfurca (plural postfurcae)

  1. (zoology) One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postfurca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)