venter
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At fertilization, the sperm swims down the neck to the venter and unites with the egg inside the archegonium.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The dorsal ground-color of Smilisca sordida is gray to pale tan or reddish brown; the venter is white.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
This directs the legs toward the pin, as a matter of safety, prevents their being broken in handling, and also gives opportunity for subsequent examination of the back, side, and venter of the specimen.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
But I venter to assert that she’s rippin things.
From Why Lincoln Laughed by Russell Herman Conwell
The coloration of Smilisca sila consists of a gray, tan, or pale reddish brown dorsal ground color and a creamy white venter.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
At worst, we have become a nation of venters, easily provoked and quick to condemn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
It venters, it enters, It seeks and it centers, It makes a'prentice free in spite Of his indentures.
From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Charles Mackay
Wal, milk-an'-water ain't a good cement," Sez he, "an' so you 'll find it in th' event; Ef reshness venters sunthin', shilly-shally Loses ez often wut's ten times the vally.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 by Various
Variation.—In life all individuals had creamy yellow venters and yellow flanks and anterior surfaces of thighs with brown or black spots and mottling.
From Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America by William E. Duellman
The venters are gray or white, and the vocal sac is nearly black in some species.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch
