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Ventral adj.

(Anat.) 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.

(Bot.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.

(b)

Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.

Ventral fins (Zool.), 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ventral" Quotes from Famous Books

... delicately-formed fish; its head covered with plates; its body with round scales of a size intermediate between those of the Osteolepis and Cheiracanthus; its anterior dorsal fin placed, as in the Dipterus, Diplopterus, and Glyptolepis, directly opposite to its ventral fins; the enamelled surfaces of the minute scales were fretted with microscopic undulating ridges, that radiated from the centre to the circumference; similar furrows traversed the occipital plates; and the fins, unfurnished with spines, were formed, as in the Dipterus and ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... who regarded all insects as automata, can scarcely be accepted without modification. Insects are automata only so far as the action of their ventral cord, and that portion of their cephalic ganglia which deals with contemporaneous impressions, ...

— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

Words linked to "Ventral" : ventral horn, abaxial, biological science, ventral root, biology, ventral fin, venter, adaxial