Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
lateral line
(lat|eral line)
noun
Zoology
a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs which detect pressure and vibration.
More words in this category
aviculture
cephalopod
claw
cnemial crest
craniate
cribriform
freemartin
herpetology
lactation
life list
Nematomorpha
neuter
ostracod
plica
polyandry
proto-
ring-tailed
thickening
trachea
yolk
Nearby Words
lately
lateness
latent
latent heat
latent image
latent period
later
-later
lateral
lateral line
lateral thinking
lateral ventricle
laterality
lateralize
Lateran
Lateran Council
Lateran Treaty
laterite
latex