nates

The buttocks.

The buttocks; the haunches; the gluteal region of the body; in man, the seat.

The larger, anterior pair of prominonces of the corpora quadrigemina or optic lobes of the brain in man and other mammals, the smaller, posterior pair being called the testes. See corpora quadrigemina, under corpus.

The umbones of a bivalve shell.

The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.