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- (hanging): dossal
From Late Middle English dorsal/dorsale, borrowing from Medieval Latin dorsālis (“of or relating to the back”), from dorsum (“the back”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to dorsum + -al.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɔː.səl/, /ˈdɔː.sl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɹ.səl/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
dorsal (comparative more dorsal, superlative most dorsal)
- (anatomy, zootomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.
- (of a knife) Having only one sharp side.
- (botany) Relating to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
- (botany) Relating to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
- (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior, distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proximal, ventral (Category: en:Medicine) [edit]
- anterodorsal, anteriodorsal
- apicodorsal
- basidorsal
- bidorsal
- caudodorsal
- centrodorsal
- cervicodorsal
- craniodorsal
- distodorsal
- dorsal body hormone
- dorsal fin
- dorsal hood
- dorsalize, dorsalise
- dorsally
- dorsalmost
- dorsal root
- dorsal root ganglion
- dorsal slit
- dorsal striatum
- dorsal vessel
- dorsalward, dorsalwards
- holodorsal
- interdorsal
- intermediodorsal
- labiodorsal
- laterodorsal
- lumbodorsal
- mediodorsal
- mesodorsal, mesiodorsal
- middorsal
- nondorsal
- oculodorsal
- postdorsal
- posterodorsal
- predorsal
- prodorsal
- proximodorsal
- retrodorsal
- rostrodorsal
- sacrodorsal
- subdorsal
- superodorsal
- supradorsal
- temporodorsal
- thoracodorsal
- ventrodorsal
relating to the side in which the backbone is located
- Arabic: ظَهْرِيّ (ẓahriyy)
- Belarusian: спінны́ (spinný)
- Bulgarian: гръбен (grǎben)
- Catalan: dorsal
- Chinese:
- Czech: hřbetní (cs), dorzální (cs)
- Finnish: selänpuoleinen
- French: dorsal (fr)
- Galician: dorsal (gl)
- German: Rücken- (de), dorsal (de)
- Italian: dorsale (it)
- Malay: belakang (ms), dorsum, dorsal
- Polish: grzbietowy (pl), dorsalny
- Portuguese: dorsal (pt)
- Romanian: dorsal (ro)
- Russian: спинно́й (ru) (spinnój), дорса́льный (ru) (dorsálʹnyj) (literary, medical), хребе́тный (ru) (xrebétnyj)
- Slovak: chrbtový (sk)
- Spanish: dorsal (es)
- Swedish: dorsal (sv), rygg-
- Tagalog: panlikod, likuran
- Ukrainian: спинни́й (spynnýj), хребе́тний (xrebétnyj)
dorsal (plural dorsals)
- (art) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc.
- (zootomy, in snakes) Any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales.
- (linguistics) A sound produced using the dorsum of the tongue.
- “dorsal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “dorsal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
dorsal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dorsals)
dorsal m (plural dorsals)
dorsal f (plural dorsals)
- (meteorology) ridge
- Antonym: tàlveg
- (geomorphology) ridge (on the ocean floor)
- “dorsal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Inherited from Old French, from Latin dorsum with adjective-forming suffix -al.
dorsal (feminine dorsale, masculine plural dorsaux, feminine plural dorsales)
- → Dutch: dorsaal
- “dorsal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
dorsal (strong nominative masculine singular dorsaler, not comparable)
Positive forms of dorsal (uncomparable)
dorsal (not comparable)
dorsal m or f (plural dorsais, not comparable)
dorsal f (plural dorsais)
- (geology) ridge
- Synonym: dorsal oceânica
- (linguistics) dorsal
dorsal m or n (feminine singular dorsală, masculine plural dorsali, feminine and neuter plural dorsale)
dorsal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dorsales)
dorsal m (plural dorsales)
- “dorsal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014