Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Nates

Nates , noun, plural

[Latin, the buttocks.]

1.
(a) (Anatomy) The buttocks.
(b)
(Anatomy) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
2.
(Zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.