Downward vs Basal - What's the difference?
downward | basal | Related terms |
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
Relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
(chiefly, systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier.
Downward is a related term of basal.
As adjectives the difference between downward and basal
is that downward is moving or sloping down while basal is relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.As an adverb downward
is toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.As a noun basal is
(anatomy) any basal structure or part.downward
English
Adverb
(en-adv) (or downwards )- His position in society moved ever downward .
- Their heads they downward bent.
- A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.
Anagrams
*basal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hittite is a basal Indo-European language.
- A magnolia is a basal angiosperm.
