Aboral

Definition: Aboral

Aboral

Adjective

1. (anatomy) opposite to or away from the mouth; "the aboral surface of a starfish".

Etymology: Aboral \Ab*o"ral\, adjective. [Latin expression ab. English oral.]. (Websters 1913)

"Aboral" is a common misspelling or typo for: abnormal, aboard, abroad, amoral, aortal, arboreal.

Antonym: oral (adj). (additional references)

The term aboral refers to the side of the starfish that does not contain the mouth. The side that contains the mouth is referred to as the oral surface.

Crosswords: Aboral

English words defined with "aboral": Calycozoa. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Aboral" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (aboral).

"Aboral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aboral" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "aboral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		aboral. (various references)

Dutch		aboraal. (various references)

French		e., caudal, éloigné de la bouche. (various references)

German		aboral. (various references)

Italian		aborale. (various references)

Pig Latin		aboralay.(various references)

Portuguese		caudal (caudal, flow rate, flux covering, fluxing, volley). (various references)

Spanish		aboral. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "aboral": aborally. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "aboral" (pronounced 'Ab*o"ral'): Antemural, Auroral, Bicrural, Binaural, Caesural, Cesural, Concho-spiral, Crural, Cynosural, Demurral, Dermoneural, Dowral, Dural, Epineural, Epipleural, Equicrural, Extramural, Floral, Genitocrural, goral, gyral, Horal, Hypural, Intercrural, intermural, Interneural, intramural, Jharal, jural, Macrural, Metachloral, Moneral, Multispiral, Mural, Musculospiral, Neural, Oral, Paucispiral, Pleural, Postoral, Precrural, Preoral, Pyral, Roral, rural, Semihoral, sororal, subdural, Subpleural, Supraloral, Sural, Tellural, Thoral, Trihoral, Ural. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-o-r"
	-1 letter: bolar, boral, labor, labra, lobar.
	-2 letters: alar, alba, baal, boar, bola, bora, oral.
	-3 letters: aal, aba, abo, ala, alb, arb, baa, bal, bar, boa, bra, bro, lab, lar, lob, oar, ora, orb, rob.
	-4 letters: aa, ab, al, ar, ba, bo, la, lo, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-o-r"
	+1 letter: allobar.
	+2 letters: abnormal, aborally, adorable, adorably, albacore, algaroba, allobars, arboreal, balmoral, baronial, braciola, labrador, lapboard, larboard, parabola.
	+3 letters: abnormals, albacores, albatross, algarobas, algarroba, ambrosial, antilabor, astrolabe, balmorals, barcarole, baritonal, boardwalk, braciolas, broadleaf, broadtail, caballero, carambola, carbachol, carbazole, clapboard, elaborate, favorable, favorably, isallobar, labradors, lapboards, larboards, myrobalan, nonarable, parabolas, parabolic, rotatable, sailboard, tabulator, tailboard, vocabular, wallboard.
	+4 letters: abnormally, aboriginal, absorbable, adsorbable, affordable, affordably, algarrobas, ambulatory, approvable, approvably, arboreally, astrolabes, barcaroles, barcarolle, bardolater, bardolatry, behavioral, blackamoor, blackboard, boardwalks, broadscale, broadtails, caballeros, calibrator, carambolas, carbachols, carbazoles, chalkboard, clapboards, columbaria, comparable, comparably, elaborated, elaborates, factorable, flashboard, halocarbon, isallobars, labiovelar, laboratory, myrobalans, paraboloid, pardonable, pardonably, portabella, procambial, propagable, radiolabel, reasonable, reasonably, sailboards, sailboater, tabulators, tailboards, vocabulary, wallboards.
	+5 letters: ablutionary, abnormality, aboriginals, adorability, aerobically, albatrosses, ambrosially, amobarbital, amortizable, atrabilious, barbarously, barcarolles, bardolaters, biomaterial, blackamoors, blackboards, boardsailor, calibration, calibrators, carboxylase, carboxylate, chalkboards, clapboarded, collaborate, elaborately, elaborating, elaboration, elaborative, flashboards, halocarbons, isallobaric, labiovelars, laborsaving, labradorite, leaderboard, libationary, librational, lumbosacral, memorabilia, organizable, overbalance, paddleboard, paraboloids, polarizable, portabellas, probational, radiolabels, relocatable, roadability, sailboaters, splashboard, subrational, treasonable, treasonably, unelaborate, unfavorable, unfavorably, vaporizable, vibrational.
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