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caudal fin

Meaning of "caudal fin" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CAUDAL FIN

caudal fin


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAUDAL FIN

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Caudal fin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CAUDAL 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 caudal fin in the English dictionary

The definition of caudal fin in the dictionary is the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAUDAL FIN

cauchemar · Cauchy · caucus · caucussing · cauda · caudad · caudal · caudally · caudate · caudated · caudation · caudex · caudices · caudicle · caudillismo · caudillo · Caudine Forks · caudle · cauf · caught

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAUDAL FIN

adipose fin · anal fin · bluefin · bowfin · coffin · dorsal fin · elfin · fin · griffin · liquid paraffin · McGuffin · muffin · paraffin · pectoral fin · pelvic fin · puffin · redfin · serafin · tiffin · ventral fin

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

SYNONYMS

Translation of «caudal fin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAUDAL FIN

Find out the translation of caudal fin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of caudal 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 «caudal fin» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

尾鳍
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

aleta caudal
570 millions of speakers
en

English

caudal fin
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दुम फिन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزعنفة الذيلية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

хвостовой плавник
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

nadadeira caudal
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পুচ্ছ পাখনা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

nageoire caudale
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sirip caudal
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schwanzflosse
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

尾びれ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

꼬리 지느러미
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Sirip caudal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vây đuôi
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

காது
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कौल फिन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Kaudal fin
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pinna caudale
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

płetwa ogonowa
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

хвостовий плавник
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

înotătoarei caudale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ουραίο πτερύγιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stertvin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stjärtfenan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halefinnen
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAUDAL FIN»

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The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration
If the distance between the dots is not the peduncle's narrowest depth, then that distance is the depth at the basal part of the anterior dorsal and ventral procurrent caudal-fin rays. Details of the shape of the caudal peduncle may be established ...
Elaine R. S. Hodges, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (U.S.), 2003
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Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying: Fluid Dynamics, ...
The mechanical properties of the fins and the effect of the caudal fin deformation resulting from the caudal muscle-skeletal structure on the performance of propulsion were not taken into account. While the study on tail kinematics of scombrid ...
Naomi Kato, Shinji Kamimura, 2008
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Fish & Fisheries
Caudal fin is a vertically expanded structure lying at the caudal end of the body. It is supported by the modified last three caudal vertebrae. It can be differentiated into dorsal epichordal and ventral hypochordal lobe. The former lies above and ...
Dr. J.P. Shukla
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Fish Locomotion
McCutcheon views the caudal fin as a self-cambering hydrofoil, with the fin automatically adjusting its camber, so that the hydrodynamic load is distributed the same way at all swimming speeds. Videler (1975) provides a detailed description of ...
Robert William Blake, 1983
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Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes
_ Chondrostei — No intrinsic caudal muscles; only hypaxial fin support Lepisosteiformes — Intrinsic caudal muscles, including HL, present; only hypaxial fin support; first independent control of caudal fin rays _ Amiiformes — Intrinsic caudal ...
Stephen T. Ross Ph. D., 2013
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Tuna: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution
MECHANICAL DESIGN OF THE CAUDAL FIN MUSCLES AND TENDONS The functional morphology of fish caudal fins has been studied in a variety of fish taxa (Bainbridge, 1963; Nursall, 1963; Videler, 1975; Lauder, 1989), but few studies ...
Barbara A. Block, Ernest Donald Stevens, 2001
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
DIAGNOSIS. Contusus with moderately long caudal peduncle, the dorsal and anal fins ending well short of caudal fin base; snout short; lower border of eye level with dorsal part of pectoral fin base; sides of body with brownish-grey spots,  ...
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Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba
Key To The CaTFish Found in ManiToba and adJaCenT areas oFThe hudson bay drainage 1A Adipose fin forming along, low ridge, either continuous with the dorsal edge of the caudal fin, or separated from it by a notch. Ten or fewer gill ...
Kenneth Stewart, Douglas Watkinson, 2004
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Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America ...
low to dark brown above, dark mottling; 4 distinct saddles; usually no pair of light spots m front of dorsal fm; white to yellow below; blotched fins; 2 distinct crescent- shaped bands in caudal fin, 1 in middle of fin, 1 near clear edge. 14-17 anal ...
Lawrence M. Page, Brooks M. Burr, 2011
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A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern ...
Shape of caudal fin A. Caudal fin slightly or deeply crescent cr B. Caudal fin squared sq c. Caudal fin rounded (even if true only for bottom half of the fin) ro Caudal Fin Subgroup cr Group 4 fish with crescent caudal fin, 17.51 sq Group ...
Leland W. Pollock, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAUDAL FIN»

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Fin regenerative capability abates during aging
They studied how aging influences the caudal fin regeneration and which cells are responsible for aging-induced alterations of regenerative ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
Researchers capture video of season's first great white encounter
... sharks, they steer the vessel toward the shark and then dip a GoPro camera into the water to document its dorsal fin, caudal fin, and gill slits. «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
3
Barnacles go with the flow to find a home on dolphin fins
... the barnacles were significantly higher, and barnacles were significantly larger, on the tail fin (caudal fin) than on the flippers and dorsal fin. «EurekAlert, Jun 15»
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The line comes instantly tight, and there is an explosion of water meeting the air as the wide caudal fin hurtles the fish into the raging current. «The Mountain Times, Jun 15»
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Theory of Convergent Evolution Analyzed
Our answer is similar: body/caudal fin swimming makes little sense in isolation. It is only within particular ecological contexts that some types of ... «Discovery Institute, May 15»
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Is this a great white shark in Magaluf?
... the placements of what appears to be the first and second dorsal fin (which seems to be placed far forward of the caudal fin) would refute the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
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Extremely Rare Deep-Water Pocket Shark Caught in Gulf of Mexico
... laterally compressed for posterior two-thirds; tapers towards a slender caudal peduncle nearly circular in cross section at caudal fin origin.”. «Sci-News.com, Apr 15»
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Un-Fin-Ished Business: Katy Perry's bid to trademark Left Shark …
... two pectoral fins and two legs and feet substituted for the caudal fin on the tail. The shark has five gills, a full mouth with teeth and round eyes ... «Vanyaland, Apr 15»
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Mysterious aquatic leeches found swarming in pond
Its caudal fin probably spans one metre to 1.2 metres. There are other fins, too: the pelvic fins,” Dr Martin Gomon, senior ichthyologist at the ... «9news.com.au, Apr 15»
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SA fisherman nets two-mouthed bream
Its caudal fin probably spans one metre to 1.2 metres. There are other fins, too: the pelvic fins,” Dr Martin Gomon, senior ichthyologist at the ... «9news.com.au, Feb 15»
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