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dorso-ventrally en · ADV

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1. In a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.
   • 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. 2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement:

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