2. Adjective. Posterior; in the rear. ¹
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Definition of Hindward
1. towards the rear [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hindward
Literary usage of Hindward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1865)
"... with another hindward and nearer the base, and with a brown point still ...
one extending from the tip to the disk, the other hindward ; submarginal ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1889)
"These cover the rostrum from the base of the antenna; hindward, then continue as
a line along the middle of the head, then fill the interval between the ..."
3. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous-Hemiptera in the Collection of by Francis Walker (1873)
"Post- ocular part of the head slightly tumid hefore the middle, narrowed hindward.
... Ocelli hindward ahout twice more remote than the eyes. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"(Cf. also infra, re the continuous hindward growth of the outer gill slits.)
Interesting in this connection is the slight variant in embryos of about 80 mm. ..."
5. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"... hardly straightened hindward, and ending very near the interior horder.
Length of the hody 5-6 lines; of the wings 16-20 lines. ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1893)
"... hindward and inward, the oblique lines thus formed meeting the median ...
it is slightly deflected hindward to form a very feeble median lobe ; the hind ..."
7. Anglo-Saxon and early English psalter: now first printed from manuscripts in by Joseph Stevenson (1843)
"2 fou torned us hindward after our faan ; And, fat hated us, refl^ him on an.
... Jra reved tha, E. f>ou went us hindward after our fa ; And* \>ai us hated, ..."
8. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker (1851)
"Prothorax rounded and slightly dilated on each side, with an ublique furrow on
each side hindward ; scutellum black, with transverse furrows, reddish at the ..."
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