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Lateral line   /lˈætərəl laɪn/   Listen
Lateral line

noun
1.
Sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water.  Synonym: lateral line organ.






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"Lateral line" Quotes from Famous Books



... Emblematum," Spoerl asks, "Why are the initials of a printer or bookseller so often placed in a circle or in a heart-shaped border, and then surmounted by a cross? Why at the extreme top of the cross is the lateral line formed into a sort of triangular four? Why, without this inexplicable sign, has the cross a number of cyphers, two, or even three, cross-bars? Why should the tail of the cypher 4 itself be traversed by one or sometimes two perpendicular bars which themselves would appear to form another cross ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts

... individuals, six in number and of categories 2 and 3, are simultaneously completing the juvenal to postjuvenal molt and beginning the postjuvenal to adult molt. The juvenal to postjuvenal molt begins, as has been described by various authors, along the lateral line and proceeds dorsally and ventrally and anteriorly and posteriorly, and the last patch to lose the gray juvenal color is the top of head and nape, or less frequently the rump. In some individuals a gray ...
— Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado • Sydney Anderson



Words linked to "Lateral line" :   sensory receptor, amphibian, sense organ, fish, lateral line organ, receptor



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