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Dorsar vs Dorsal - What's the difference?

dorsar | dorsal |

As nouns the difference between dorsar and dorsal

is that dorsar is a piece of tapestry intended to hang over the back of a chair while dorsal is (art) a hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc.

As an adjective dorsal is

(anatomy) with respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.

dorsar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a piece of tapestry intended to hang over the back of a chair
  • *1896 , William Morris, The Well at the World's End, volume 1 , Ballantine Books (1970 pb edition), page 94
  • *:He laughed gaily and went into the hall with her, and now was it well dight with bankers and dorsar s of goodly figured cloth, ...

    • dorsal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.
  • (of a knife) Having only one sharp side.
  • (anatomy) Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand.
  • (linguistics, of a sound) Produced using the dorsum of the tongue.
  • (botany) Relating to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
  • (botany) Relating to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.

    • Antonyms

    * ventral

    Coordinate terms

    * * (linguistics) labial, coronal, radical, laryngeal

    Derived terms

    * dorsal fin * dorsally

    Related terms

    * endorse, indorse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (art) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc.
  • In snakes, any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales.

    • Anagrams

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