Meaning of dorso-ventrally | Babel Free

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In a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.

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“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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