hindermost

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These wing-like processes are borne by prolongations of five or six of the hindermost ribs, and can be folded up.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Valentine tried to get into the hindermost row.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

And between the hindermost and the squamosal there is an intervening bar of bone, unknown among mammalia, which moves upon the skull by a joint, just as the lower jaw moves upon it.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

The hindermost specimens of tail vertebræ observed have the neural arch preserved to the end, as among reptiles; whereas in mammals this arch becomes lost towards the end of the tail.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

This figure must have been the hindermost in the procession of Thallophori, and the entire number of these persons is therefore seventeen, not sixteen, as Michaelis makes it.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.