/ˈneɪtiːz/
OriginFrom Latin natēs, plural of natis.
- plural, plural-onlyThe two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
- plural, plural-onlyThe buttocks.
“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.”
“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.”
- plural, plural-onlyThe umbones of a bivalve shell.
- form-of, pluralplural of Nate