HETEROCERCAL FIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heterocercal fin mean? 

• HETEROCERCAL FIN (noun)
  The noun HETEROCERCAL FIN has 1 sense:

1. a tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks

  Familiarity information: HETEROCERCAL FIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROCERCAL FIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("heterocercal fin" is a kind of...):

caudal fin; tail fin (the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates)

Antonym:

homocercal fin (symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes)