ventral

1. 1.

   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”

   “the liver is somewhat ventral in position”

   “ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped”

   Antonymsdorsal

   Similardorsoventral
2. 2.

   nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism

   “the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface”

   Synonymsadaxial

   biology

Other forms of ventral

comparative

ventraller·

superlative

ventrallest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ventral

What does ventral mean?

ventral means "toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ventral?

ventral has 2 syllables: ven-tral. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /ˈvɛntɹəl/.

What is another word for ventral?

Close synonyms include adaxial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ventral?

The recorded antonyms are dorsal.

Is ventral a common word?

ventral is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.