Crossword clues for dorsa
WordNet
See dorsum
n. the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back]
the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part); "the dorsum of the foot"
[also: dorsa (pl)]
Usage examples of "dorsa".
Rhodani constituta, quae in Orientis prospectum tabulatum pontem per nuncupati fluminis dorsa transmittit.
We were waiting for the Soils Dorsa train to come and swift us away to our planums, planitias, fossas, and valleys.
Olympians erected a small, remote laboratory in Melas Dorsa, using some of their own money and a bit of land donated by Klein BM.
Melas Dorsa is moderately cratered land, cut from the south by shallow canyons, and swept by low dunes.
Melas Dorsa, no stations within four hundred kilometers of the lab, and Charles warned me there would be few amenities.
Flying over Solis Dorsa, avoiding the edge of a thin but wide dust storm, I experienced a quick shiver of unease.
From this budget came money to build a larger laboratory in Melas Dorsa, for research on constructing larger versions of tweaker mirror matter drives.
Melas Dorsa laboratory and decided that it could never be occupied again.
Melas Dorsa with extraordinary cunning and efficiency, first sending small units into the deserted station to reconnoiter and knock out com, then big destructors.
Then, slowly, the fog faded, and the ridged plains of Felis Dorsa emerged out of the haze, at first misty and colorless, and then, as the dust raised by the landing thinned out, sharply delineated.
In the Martian tropics south of the equator, the Felis Dorsa featured a relatively mild climateor at least mild for Mars, where temperatures of a hundred below at night were normal.
The sun was smaller than the sunsets she was used to, and in the deep shadows the ridges of Felis Dorsa were a dark brick, almost brown.