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"the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"adverbin a lateral direction or location
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"such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin"to or by or from the side
Definition that contains laterally
- bank a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- bank tip laterally
- deep having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
- flat flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- aisle part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns
- compressed flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- rorschach a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots; subjects state what they see in the inkblot
- sunfish small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
- sea cradle primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
- teres minor muscle teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally