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ventolin | ventose | ventosity | ventouse | ventrad | ventral | ventral fin | ventral placentation | ventrally | ventricle | ventricose

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ventral

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Adjective

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ven=tral

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective ventral has 2 senses

ventral(a = adj.all) Array - toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped"

Derived forms noun venter₄, noun venter₃, noun venter₂

ventral(a = adj.all) adaxial - nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface"

CIDE DICTIONARY

ventral, a. [L. ventralis, fr. venter the belly; perhaps akin to G. wanst: cf. F. ventral.].

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal. [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower. [1913 Webster]

Ventral fins (Zoöl.), the posterior pair of fins of a fish. They are often situated beneath the belly, but sometimes beneath the throat. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loop, n., 5.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ventral, adj.
1 Anat. & Zool. of or on the abdomen (cf. DORSAL).
2 Bot. of the front or lower surface.

Idiom

ventral fin either of the ventrally placed fins on a fish.

Derivative

ventrally adv.

Etymology

obs. venter abdomen f. L venter ventr-

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