HyperDic: homocercal_fin

English > 1 sense of the expression homocercal fin:
NOUNanimalhomocercal finsymmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes
English > homocercal fin: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningsymmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes.
Broadertail fin, caudal finThe tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
Oppositeheterocercal finA tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger / larger lobe as in sharks
Spanishhomocerca
Catalanhomocerca

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