ventral

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal)
adjective nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism

From French ventral, from Latin ventrālis, from venter (“belly, abdomen”); by surface analysis, ventr- + -al.

He grinned, and Cromwell broke into a ventral laugh. — The Frozen Pirate, William Clark Russell
The more an Indian agrees with the speaker the more ventral do his ejaculations become. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
By gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Engastrimythian prophetess. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

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