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English
Adverb
dorso-ventrally (comparative more dorso-ventrally, superlative most dorso-ventrally)
- In a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.
2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement: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 more recent terrestrial ones.
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