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A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

re, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.

e and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean.

The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

ll, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.

Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.

Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.