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PRONUNCIATION OF ANAL FIN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANAL FIN

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Anal fin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ANAL FIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fish fin

Fish fins are the most distinctive features of a fish, composed of bony spines protruding from the body with skin covering them and joining them together, either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as seen in sharks. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fins have no direct connection with the spine and are supported by muscles only. Their principal function is to help the fish swim. Fins located in different places on the fish serve different purposes, such as moving forward, turning, keeping an upright position or stopping. Most fish use fins when swimming, flying fish use pectoral fins for gliding, and frogfish use them for crawling. Fins can also be used for other purposes; male killifish use a modified anal fin to deliver sperm, the thresher shark use its tail fin to stun prey, the reef stonefish has spines in its dorsal fin that inject venom, and triggerfish squeeze into coral crevices to avoid predators, and lock themselves in place with their spines.

Definition of anal fin in the English dictionary

The definition of anal fin in the dictionary is a median ventral unpaired fin, situated between the anus and the tail fin in fishes, that helps to maintain stable equilibrium.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ANAL FIN

adipose fin
bluefin
bowfin
caudal fin
coffin
dorsal fin
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McGuffin
muffin
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pectoral fin
pelvic fin
puffin
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tiffin
ventral fin

Synonyms and antonyms of anal fin in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «anal fin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANAL FIN

Find out the translation of anal fin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anal fin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anal fin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

臀鳍
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aleta anal
570 millions of speakers

English

anal fin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुदा फिन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزعنفة الشرجية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

анальный плавник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nadadeira anal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পায়ূ পাখি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nageoire anale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sirip dubur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Afterflosse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

しりびれ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뒷 지느러미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anal fin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vây hậu môn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குத செக்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुदद्वारासंबंधीचा पंख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Anal fin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pinna anale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anal fin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

анальний плавник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fin anal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρωκτικό πτερύγιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anale vin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

analfena
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gattfinnen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anal fin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANAL FIN»

The term «anal fin» is regularly used and occupies the 95.377 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANAL FIN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anal fin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANAL FIN»

Discover the use of anal fin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anal fin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin: With Emphasis on ...
Anal fin located far to the rear, distance from anal fin origin to caudal fin base will go 2.5 times or more into distance from tip of snout to anal fin origin; similarly, the distance from the anal fin origin to the caudal fin base is equal to the distance ...
Barton C. Marcy, 2005
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Bones and Cartilage: Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal ...
Image courtesy of Patricia Avendaño. Surprisingly, tailless fish are known (Box 43.1). median fins follows. Dorsal fin Two dorsal fins – mackerels, tunas, bonitos ( Scombridae) dogfish, sharks (Squaliformes) Two dorsal fins, anal fin absent– rays ...
Brian K. Hall, 2005
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Freshwater Fishes of North-eastern Australia
29; scales absent on belly between pelvic fin base and anus 28 28a Total anal fin rays usually 9-13; rigid fin spines absent; anal fin origin in posterior half of body ( by SL) Pseudomugilidae Aa Body and median fins covered with small black ...
Brad Pusey, Mark J. Kennard, Angela H. Arthington, 2004
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Inland Fishes of California
Anal fin rays 30-36; anal fin nearly straight . . blue catfish, I ctalurus furcatus. 2b. Anal fin rays less than 30; anal fin rounded 3 3a. Anal fin rays 24-29; small dark spots usually present on sides . . channel catfish I ctalurus punctatus. 3b. Anal fin  ...
Peter B. Moyle, 1976
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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Volume 2: Scorpaeniformes to ...
pelvic fin; anal fin rays seven or eight (usually seven); 61 to 72 (usually 64 to 71 ) scales in horizontal series from posttemporal region to caudal fin base Centropomus pectinatus p. 102 2b. Gill rakers on lower limb of first arch, excluding ...
John D. McEachran, Janice D. Fechhelm, 2006
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Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea
Linophrynidae, p. 477 Dorsal-fin rays more than 4, anal-fin rays 4 to 7; branchiostegal rays 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ceratobranchials toothless; branchiostegal rays narrow and cylindrical; 3 pectoral radials .
Theodore W. Pietsch, 2009
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Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina
3a. Caudal fin deeply forked; anal fin rays 24 or more 4 3b. Caudal fin moderately forked or emarginate; anal fin rays usually fewer than 24 5 217 4a. Anal fin margin straight; anal fin rays 30 or more; no spots on side Family Ictaluridae blue  ...
‎2009
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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. 1: Myxiniformes to ...
Pectoral fin shorter than anal fin base; large teeth in lower jaw fixed or depressible, with smooth edges . . . . . 3 2a. Lateral line scalelike sections with four to seven pores above and below (Fig. 122); vertebrae 59 or 60 and prehaemal vertebrae ...
John McEachran, Janice D. Fechhelm, 2013
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Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the ...
If the anal fin- fold is defined and incipient rays are visible the entire length of the fin base, anal fin ray counts may distinguish some individuals (see below). Juveniles. Yellow bullheads have a rounded or truncate caudal fin, 24-28 anal fin rays ...
Thomas P. Simon, Robert Wallus, 2003
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Saber-Toothed Blennies, Tribe Nemophini (Pisces: Blennidae)
Orbital cirrus present; total dorsal-fin rays 25-27; segmented anal-fin rays 14-16; ( Indian and Pacific oceans) xestus Orbital cirrus absent; total dorsal-fin rays 33; segmented anal-fin rays 21; (Taiwan) springeri 4. Body of adults with two or more  ...
William Smith-Vaniz, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANAL FIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anal fin is used in the context of the following news items.
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Age and growth of Pacific blue marlin
Some of the bony structures that have been examined from billfish are the otholiths (ear bones), vertebrae, dorsal and anal fin spines. Another ... «Lahaina News, Jul 15»
2
Ask a conservation officer: Use anal fin to identify salmon, trout
The best tell-tale descriptor is the shape of the anal fin, as shown on page 80 of the 2015 Fishing Regulation book. When folded back, the ... «Duluth News Tribune, Jun 15»
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N.C. State University uses Big Rock Blue Marlin catches for scientific …
You can use the dorsal spine, the spine on the anal fin and there's also a bone in the head of the fish known as the otolith. You can take a ... «WCTI12.com, Jun 15»
4
Wild File: Red snapper in season now
The fish has a long triangular snout and a sharply pointed anal fin and red eyes. Red snapper can grow up to 40 inches in length and weigh 50 ... «The News-Press, Jun 15»
5
Abundant croaker supply helps fire up speckled trout action
... their lateral line and above their anal fin. He recommends larger No. 6/0-7/0 circle-wide hooks, rather than No. 4/0-5/0 hooks used for shrimp, ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jun 15»
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Big Rock reels in research
However, the researchers collect a variety of fish parts for research including the scales, ear bones and anal fin spines. The anal fin spines, ... «N.C. State University Technician Online, Jun 15»
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Kelly Bostian: First time is 115-pound charm for paddlefish snagger
... releasing more than 34,000 cubic feet per second at 9 p.m. on June 3, so when Staner sunk a treble hook into the anal fin of that 115-pound, ... «Tulsa World, Jun 15»
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Michigan DNR conducts fish survey on Lake Besser
... Technician Supervisor Pat Van Daele, collecting scales from panfish under 6 inches and dorsal or anal fin spines from larger predator fish. «Beaumont Enterprise, May 15»
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New to nature No 141: Porophryne erythrodactylus
... but is distinct in several ways including red pigmentation along the distal margins of its fins, fewer anal fin rays details of the structure of the ... «The Guardian, May 15»
10
Breaking bulls
7) Beginning at the rear of the rib cage cut free the bottom half of the fillet from the frame, going over the anal fin. 8) Spin the fish around so its ... «Louisiana Sportsman, May 15»

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