heterocercal fin

1. 1.

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

   Antonymshomocercal fin

   Broadertail fin

Questions about heterocercal fin

What does heterocercal fin mean?

heterocercal fin means "a tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks".

What is the opposite of heterocercal fin?

The recorded antonyms are homocercal fin.

Is heterocercal fin a common word?

heterocercal fin 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.