Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

ventral

/ˈvɛntɹəl/ adjective, noun

Forms ventrals

adjective Related to the abdomen or stomach.
adjective (anatomy) On the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface.
adjective (anatomy) On or relating to the sole of the foot or the palmar surface of the hand.
adjective (neuroanatomy) On the lower side of the brain.
noun Any of the enlarged and transversely elongated scales that extend down the underside of a snake's body from the neck to the anal scale.

Synonyms

From French ventral, from Latin ventrālis, from venter (“belly, abdomen”); by surface analysis, ventr- + -al.

adjective Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; --opposed to Ant: dorsal.
adjective (a) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.

Etymology [L. ventralis, fr. venter the belly; perhaps akin to G. wanst: cf. F. ventral.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ventral”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “ventral” (best matches first).