ventral
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
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
Related & opposite
- dorsal antonym
- venter derivation
- venter derivation
- belly derivation
- dorsoventral similar to
Sense 2 adjective
nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism
the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | dorsal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | venter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | venter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | belly |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | dorsoventral |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | abaxial |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | biology |