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Neuropodium :: Neuropodium (n.) The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.

Gastropoda :: Gastropoda (n. pl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca..

Archiannelida :: Archiannelida (n. pl.) A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

Amphitrocha :: Amphitrocha (n.) A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..

Glass-snake :: Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World..

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

Xenopterygii :: Xenopterygii (n. pl.) A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales..

Pterygopodium :: Pterygopodium (n.) A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper..

Ventral :: Ventral (a.) 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..

Subcaliber :: Subbronchial (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds..

Infrabranchial :: Infrabranchial (a.) Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

Subhornblendic :: Subhepatic (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein..

Subpurchaser :: Subpulmonary (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs..

Suture :: Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume..

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera..

Basi- :: Basi- () A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc..

Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..

Ventrad :: Ventrad (adv.) Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.

Predorsal :: Predorsal (a.) Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column..

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