ventral placentation

1. 1.

   with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary

   Synonymsmarginal placentation

   Broaderplacentation

Questions about ventral placentation

What does ventral placentation mean?

ventral placentation means "with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary".

What is another word for ventral placentation?

Close synonyms include marginal placentation. 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.

Is ventral placentation a common word?

ventral placentation 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.