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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,

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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.

 

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