Word Meanings - DORSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
Additional info about word: DORSAL
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf. Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss. Dorsal vessel , a central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.
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- ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - INFERIORLY
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part. - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - NOTAL
Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal. - DORSALLY
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad. - INFERIORITY
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - DORSIVENTRAL
Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - DORSOVENTRAL
From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - LONG-TONGUE
The wryneck.