Word.ws English Dictionary

dorsomarginal

dorsomarginal adjective: dorsal and marginal.

Adjective

dorsomarginal (not comparable)

  1. dorsal and marginal
    • 1) by peculiar shape of phallus forming four outgoing loops in a single plain and simultaneously tergite 6 bearing two long thumb-like dorsomarginal processes.2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera, Empididae)”, in ZooKeys, →DOI

Origin of dorsomarginal

From dorso- + marginal.

Questions about dorsomarginal

What does dorsomarginal mean?
Dorsomarginal means dorsal and marginal.
What part of speech is dorsomarginal?
Dorsomarginal is an adjective.

Words near dorsomarginal in the dictionary

  1. dorsolaterally
  2. dorsolingual
  3. dorsolingually
  4. dorsolongitudinal
  5. dorsolumbar
  6. dorsomarginal
  7. dorsomedial
  8. dorsomedially
  9. dorsomedian
  10. dorsomedioposterior
  11. dorsomesal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dorsomarginal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dorsomarginal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dorsomarginal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.