CAUDAL FIN

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Meaning:

The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates

Synonyms:

caudal fin; tail fin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fin (organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caudal fin"):

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

homocercal fin (symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes)

Holonyms ("caudal fin" is a part of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)