Occiput: Definition and part of speech

Occiput

  1. n. A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.
  2. n. The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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