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Aboral Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Aboral has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

opposite to or away from the mouth

"the aboral surface of a starfish"

2

Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

Related Terms
Antonyms
buccal

Origin

The word comes from Latin, combining ab- meaning "away from" and oral meaning "of the mouth." It originally described a direction or position opposite to the mouth.

Rhyming Words
ral tral ural oral gral aral kral aural jural loral acral moral dural meral sural boral rural coral feral viral
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