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1. What does FIN mean?
pronunciation
Meaning no. 1/9 (6 senses as a noun, 3 senses as a verb): The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

2. What does FIN KEEL mean?
pronunciation
It's a metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stability

3. What does SOUP-FIN mean?
pronunciation
Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)

4. What does TAIL FIN mean?
pronunciation
This has several meanings (3 senses as a noun). In its most usual sense, it's a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane

5. What does FIN WHALE mean?
pronunciation
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific

6. What does CAUDAL FIN mean?
pronunciation
The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates

7. What does DORSAL FIN mean?
pronunciation
Unpaired median fin on the backs of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates that help to maintain balance

8. What does PELVIC FIN mean?
pronunciation
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

9. What does VENTRAL FIN mean?
pronunciation
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

10. What does PECTORAL FIN mean?
pronunciation
Either of a pair of fins situated just behind the head in fishes that help control the direction of movement

11. What does VERTICAL FIN mean?
pronunciation
It's a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane

12. What does FIN DE SIECLE mean?
pronunciation
Relating to or characteristic of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century)

13. What does HOMOCERCAL FIN mean?
definition
Symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes

14. What does LONG-FIN TUNNY mean?
pronunciation
Large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

15. What does HETEROCERCAL FIN mean?
pronunciation
Tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks


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