dorsoventrally

1. 1.

   in a dorsoventral direction

   “the ray has a dorsoventrally flattened body”

Questions about dorsoventrally

What does dorsoventrally mean?

dorsoventrally means "in a dorsoventral direction".

How many syllables are in dorsoventrally?

dorsoventrally has 5 syllables and divides as dor-so-ven-tral-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dorsoventrally a common word?

dorsoventrally is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.