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Meaning of LATERALLY

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adv]  (anatomy) in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"
  2. [adv]  to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin"
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lat"er*al*ly\, adv.
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
 

 

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