Nates vs Yates - What's the difference?
nates | yates |
(anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
The buttocks.
* 1963 , (Anthony Burgess), Inside Mr Enderby
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 3:
*:He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.
(zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
As nouns the difference between nates and yates
is that nates is the two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes while yates is plural of lang=en.As a proper noun Yates is
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English
Noun
(en-plural noun)- Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.