Definition of dorsiventral in English:
dorsiventral
adjectiveˌdɔːsɪˈvɛntr(ə)lˌdôrsəˈventrəl
Botany 1(of a leaf or other part of a plant) having dissimilar dorsal and ventral surfaces.
Example sentencesExamples
- The older second leaf becomes dorsiventral to the first.
- Despite the great diversity of leaf morphology, all leaves are defined by a flattened dorsiventral transactional symmetry, determinate development, and initiation from the flanks of the shoot apical meristem.
- A typical maize leaf can be divided along three axes, the proximodistal, mediolateral, and dorsiventral or ad/abaxial.
- It has a thin crustose dorsiventral thallus.
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another term for dorsoventral
Derivatives
nounˌdɔːsɪvɛnˈtrɑlɪti
Botany During this time, dorsiventrality was established, but a radicle was not yet differentiated.
Example sentencesExamples
- With the possible exception of some early Chinese fossils, the origin of lamination significantly post-dates determinacy and dorsiventrality.
- These results do not indicate that in potatoes the dorsiventrality of the leaves is induced by the stem apex.
- Both species show architectural dorsiventrality in that the prophyll of the first-order axillary bud is ventral and vascular dorsiventrality in that all midvein leaf traces arise from ventral vascular sympodia.
- In addition, these modified leaves displayed a reduced dorsiventrality with ramified and larger epidermal trichomes (not shown).
adverb
Botany The sporophyte has a creeping habit and is dorsiventrally flattened.
Example sentencesExamples
- The fruit is small, 1-2 mm in length, yellow-brown in color, obovate, and compressed dorsiventrally.