homocercal_fin (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *homocercal fin*:
NOUN	animal	homocercal fin	symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes

English > *homocercal fin*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes.
Broader	tail fin, caudal fin	The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
Opposite	heterocercal fin	A tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger / larger lobe as in sharks
Spanish	homocerca
Catalan	homocerca

HyperDic: homocercal_fin