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dorso-ventrally

dorso-ventrally adverb: in a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.

Adverb

dorso-ventrally (comparative more dorso-ventrally, superlative most dorso-ventrally)

  1. In a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.
    • So it is that one of the characteristics that the sperm whale shares with all cetaceans is that it swims by flexing its tail flukes dorso-ventrally, a less efficient way of swimming than that of its distant piscine ancestors, but a mode of locomotion that derives directly from the galloping of its...2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement

Forms of dorso-ventrally

comparativemore dorso-ventrally
superlativemost dorso-ventrally

Questions about dorso-ventrally

What does dorso-ventrally mean?
Dorso-ventrally means in a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.
What part of speech is dorso-ventrally?
Dorso-ventrally is an adverb.

Words near dorso-ventrally in the dictionary

  1. dorsiventrality
  2. dorsiventrally
  3. dorsmanin
  4. dorsmanins
  5. dorso-
  6. dorso-ventrally
  7. dorsoabdominal
  8. dorsoanterior
  9. dorsoanteriorise
  10. dorsoanteriorised
  11. dorsoanteriorize

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