LATERAL LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lateral line mean? 

• LATERAL LINE (noun)
  The noun LATERAL LINE has 1 sense:

1. sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water

  Familiarity information: LATERAL LINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATERAL LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lateral line; lateral line organ

Hypernyms ("lateral line" is a kind of...):

receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)

Holonyms ("lateral line" is a part of...):

amphibian (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)