Word Meanings - NOTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

Related words: (words related to NOTAL)

• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DORSAL
  Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
• DORSALE
  See N
• PREDORSAL
  Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach