Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology and anatomy, inner; internal: opposed to ectal. See entad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.

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  • adjective anatomy Relating to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner.

Etymologies

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ent- + -al

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Examples

  • Transcendental: From the Latin trans, which means “to go across”; the Sanskrit Skanda, which means “to leap”; and ental, which means “to the end of all.”

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Transcendental: From the Latin trans, which means “to go across”; the Sanskrit Skanda, which means “to leap”; and ental, which means “to the end of all.”

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Transcendental: From the Latin trans, which means “to go across”; the Sanskrit Skanda, which means “to leap”; and ental, which means “to the end of all.”

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Hogarth pro­moted native English artists, like himself, over imported contin­ental tal­ent.

    C18th Pleasure Gardens; fashions, food, drink, dancing, music Hels 2009

  • Hogarth pro­moted native English artists, like himself, over imported contin­ental tal­ent.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009

  • Of Ori - ental design, it had been made of precious fabrics that she might have brought with her when she crossed the Pacific from the Philippines to Acapulco.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • By now it was so fuTnly entrenched in his ~ental make-up that he could not stand up for himself without a complete reversal of what thirty-four years of bowing and scraping and pettyminded unrealized dreams had fumed him ir~to.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • The myth of the universe developing in ever-repeating cycles, which is found in most ori - ental religions, helps him to explain social change as

    NECESSITY STEPHAN K 1968

  • Furca: a fork: the anal appendage used for leaping in Thysanura; see furcula: the forked ental processes of the sternum.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Napoleon rode his white horse; Murat, in Ori - ental dress, a bay charger.

    The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

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