laterally (adv.)

  1. 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'

  2. in a lateral direction or location; the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally'

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