pelvic fin

1. 1.

   either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate

   Synonymsventral fin

   Broaderfin

Questions about pelvic fin

What does pelvic fin mean?

pelvic fin means "either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate".

What is another word for pelvic fin?

Close synonyms include ventral fin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pelvic fin a common word?

pelvic 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.