dorso-ventrally
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more dorso-ventrally (comparative)
most dorso-ventrally (superlative)