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underside

[uhn-der-sahyd] / ˈʌn dərˌsaɪd /
NOUN
lower side
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The brain tumour, he said, was like "a monster with tentacles spreading across the underside of my brain the width of a baseball".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

To investigate the process, the team combined a highly detailed map of the underside of the Fimbulisen Ice Shelf with a high resolution computer model of the ocean cavity beneath it.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

It was all a stimulating change from opera-house productions, which often lean on 18th-century elegance instead of exploring the seamy underside and corruption of the demimonde that is at the heart of the piece.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

On the underside of its cap are white gills and spores.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

Arachne had the body of a giant black widow, with a hairy red hourglass mark on the underside of her abdomen and a pair of oozing spinnerets.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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