Meaning | The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates. |
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Synonym | tail fin |
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Part of | fish | Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills |
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Narrower | heterocercal fin | A tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger / larger lobe as in sharks |
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homocercal fin | symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes |
Broader | fin | organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals |
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Spanish | aleta caudal |
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Catalan | aleta caudal |
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