heterocercal

1. 1.

   possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe

   Antonymshomocercal

   ichthyology

Questions about heterocercal

What does heterocercal mean?

heterocercal means "possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe".

How many syllables are in heterocercal?

heterocercal has 5 syllables: het-e-ro-cer-cal. The stress falls on "cer". In IPA it is /ˌhɛtɚoʊˈsɝkəl/.

What is the opposite of heterocercal?

The recorded antonyms are homocercal.

Is heterocercal a common word?

heterocercal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.