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Meaning of "heterocercy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROCERCY

ˈhɛtərəʊˌsɜːsɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROCERCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterocercy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETEROCERCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of heterocercy in the English dictionary

The definition of heterocercy in the dictionary is the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROCERCY

arsy-versy · birsy · Circe · controversy · gramercy · hearsy · homocercy · mercy · Percy · pursy · remercy · reversi

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROCERCY

heterocarpous · heterocercal · heterocercality · heterochlamydeous · heterochromatic · heterochromatin · heterochromatism · heterochromosome · heterochromous · heterochronic · heterochronism · heterochronous · heterochrony · heteroclite · heteroclitic · heteroclitous · heterocont · heterocycle · heterocyclic · heterocyst

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROCERCY

accuracy · agency · currency · darcy · diplomacy · efficiency · emergency · errand of mercy · fancy · farcy · frequency · legacy · Lucy · nancy · pharmacy · policy · potency · pregnancy · privacy · Tracy

Synonyms and antonyms of heterocercy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterocercy» into 25 languages

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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
380 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
278 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
270 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
260 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
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Heterocercy
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heterocercy
180 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
130 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
85 millions of speakers
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Heterocercy
85 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
80 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
75 millions of speakers
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हेटेरॉक्रसी
75 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
70 millions of speakers
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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heterocercy
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROCERCY»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROCERCY»

Discover the use of heterocercy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterocercy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fish & Fisheries
Modifications of caudal fin The transition from heterocercy to homocercy is evidently available in a number of fossil bony fishes. But the example from the living bony fishes is also not rare. The primitive groups like Holosteans which includes ...
Dr. J.P. Shukla
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Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory
Taking a glance at our figures, we may readily verify the fact that heterocercy seems to be tending towards gephyrocercy as the final term of caudal differentiation. On PL I, Fig. 1, the archicercal filament of Chimcera [69] • THE EVOLUTION OF ...
‎1898
3
Records of the Indian Museum
Having discussed the probable stimulus effecting heterocercy, there still remains the question as to why it was at all necessary to develop this asymmetry. When we remember that heterocercy is but a stage in the production of homocercy, it is  ...
Indian Museum, 1919
4
Fish Physiology: Fish Biomechanics: Fish Biomechanics
Musculoskeletal system of the caudal fin in basal actinopterygians: Heterocercy, diphycercy, homocercy. Zoomorphology 123, 15–30. Gemballa, S., and Britz, R. ( 1998). Homology of intermuscular bones in acanthomorph fishes. Am. Mus.
Robert E. Shadwick, George V. Lauder, 2006
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The Primary Factors Of Organic Evolution
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1834, pp. 981-:085. PI. IX. 0n the Origin of Heterocercy, etc. Ryder. I. A. American Naturalist. pp. yswaq. AThcory of the Origin of Placental Types. etc. Cope. E. D. American Naturalist. pp. 985. 1060.
E.D. Cope
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An Index to the Scientific Contents of the Journal and ...
P '89, 138 Heterocercy in Batraehia. P '89, 155 The hypertrophied hairs on Ampélopsis. P '89, 155 □ The functions and histology of the yolk-sack of the young toad-fish. P so, 407 □ On two new and undescribed methods of contractility ...
Edward James Nolan, 1913
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The Work of John Samuel Budgett Balfour Student of the ...
... though some of the dermal bones of the head have already begun to ossify. The dorsal finlets at this stage are merely a continuation forwards of the finfold of the tail. The heterocercy of the caudal fin is scarcely more apparent (even in ...
8
The elasmobranch fishes
In Hoterodontas (fig. 78.x) the radials are more numerous than are the vertebrae. In Lomiio the dorsal radials are inconspicuous, while those having a ventral position are usually large. In this type we see the extreme of heterocercy, in which ...
D.J. Frank
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Proceedings [of] National Academy of Sciences
... Heterocercy. 106. Gibbs, Woloott. On new process in Analytical Chemistry. 107 . Peirce, Benj. On Algebras. 108. Agassiz, L. On the significance of classes in the Animal Kingdom. 109. Gould, B. A. Observations in 1866-7 of right ascension of ...
‎1877
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Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North ...
... of physo- clist fishes. Amer. Naturalist, xix, pp. 315-317. — 1885 D On the probable origin, homologies, and development of the flukes of cetaceans and sirenians. Amer. Naturalist, xix, pp. 515-519. — 1886 A On the origin of heterocercy and ...
Oliver Perry Hay, 1902
REFERENCE
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