HOMOCERCAL FIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homocercal fin mean? 

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

1. symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOCERCAL FIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Antonym:

heterocercal fin (a tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks)