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Meaning of "pelvic fin" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PELVIC FIN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PELVIC FIN

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Pelvic fin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PELVIC 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 pelvic fin in the English dictionary

The definition of pelvic fin in the dictionary is either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle of fishes that help to control the direction of movement during locomotion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PELVIC FIN

peltingly
peltless
peltmonger
Pelton wheel
peltries
peltry
pelves
pelvic
pelvic arch
pelvic floor
pelvic girdle
pelvic inflammatory disease
pelvic-floor exercises
pelviform
pelvimeter
pelvimetry
pelvis
pelycosaur

WORDS THAT END LIKE PELVIC FIN

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

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

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Translation of «pelvic fin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PELVIC FIN

Find out the translation of pelvic fin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pelvic 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 «pelvic fin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

腹鳍
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aleta pélvica
570 millions of speakers

English

pelvic fin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

श्रोणि पंख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزعنفة الحوضية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

брюшного плавника
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nadadeira pélvica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শ্রোণী ফেনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nageoire pelvienne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sirip panggul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bauchflosse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

腹びれ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지느러미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sirip panggul
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vây bụng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடுப்பு மூட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेल्विक फिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pelvik yüzgeç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pinna pelvica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miednicy fin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

черевного плавника
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aripioarei pelvine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοιλιακού πτερυγίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bekken vin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bukfenans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bekkenfinnen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pelvic fin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PELVIC FIN»

The term «pelvic fin» is normally little used and occupies the 135.600 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PELVIC FIN» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PELVIC FIN»

Discover the use of pelvic fin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pelvic fin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advances in Invertebrates and Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of ...
Therefore, the pelvic fin-clipping whose regeneration rate was higher (Coombs et al.. 1990) was chosen. As far as fish with a pelvic fin clipped were concerned, the comparison between fish with and without a PIT tag showed that this individual ...
Jean Paul Lagardere, Marie-Laure Begout Anras, Guy Claireaux, 1998
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The Laboratory Fish
There are usually six main pairs of pelvic fin muscle present: the ventrally situated Arrector ventralis pelvicus, and two abductors (Abductor superficialis pelvicus and Profundus pelvicus) and the medially situated;4rrector dorsalis pelvicus, and ...
Gary Kent Ostrander, 2000
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Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, Second Edition
Pectoral fin when depressed extends to origin of pelvic fin; male pelvic claspers divided for distal one-third of their length; preopercular and oral canals share a common branch; body color blackishbrown with dark bluish streaking; locality ...
Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus, 2012
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Locomotion: Volume 7: Locomotion
There is a concomitant reduction in the number of pelvic fin rays. In higher fish where the pectoral fins have moved upward the pelvics often move forward, and the pelvic girdle becomes strongly attached by ligaments to the cleithra of the ...
‎1979
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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Volume 2: Scorpaeniformes to ...
... naris; gill rakers on first arch 17 to 24 Mycteroperca bonaci p. 166 24a. Dorsal fin with 13 to 15 rays; anal fin with 9 rays; pelvic fin origin in front of pectoral fin insertion; pelvic fin as long as or longer than pectoral fin (in specimens between 10 ...
John D. McEachran, Janice D. Fechhelm, 2006
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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. 1: Myxiniformes to ...
Pelvic fin about equidistant between tip of pectoral fin and dorsal fin insertion; dorsal fin origin near midlength (body length equals tip of operculum to base of caudal fin) . . . . . Stemonosudis bullisi p. 592 5b. Pelvic fin closer to dorsal fin ...
John McEachran, Janice D. Fechhelm, 2013
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Biology, Fisheries, and Culture of Tropical Groupers and ...
Melanophores appear flag-like on the fin membrane at the distal tips of the second dorsal and the pelvic fin spines immediately after they begin to develop at 2.9 mm. Melanistic pigmentation over the second dorsal fin spine extends proximally ...
Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, J. L. Munro, M. C. Balgos, 1996
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Fishes of West Virginia
Axillary process present at base of pelvic fin; gill membranes free from isthmus and extending well forward to throat area below eye; anal-fin rays 17 or more 16 15b. No axillary process at base of pelvic fin; gill membranes joined at isthmus ...
Jay Stauffer, 2007
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Adult: body yellowish-brown or greyish-brown, with 5 oblique, dark brown bands - from anterior dorsal spines through pectoral fin base to pelvic fin base, from anterior dorsal rays to belly, from 7th-9th dorsal rays to anterior anal spines, from  ...
10
Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong
REQUIRING MAGNIFICATION TO SEE; (2) 8 BRANCHED DORSAL-FIN RAYS; ( 3) VENT CLOSER TO ANAL FIN THAN TO PELVIC FIN ORIGIN; (4) CAUDAL FIN WEAKLY FORKED TO EMARGINATE: (5) LOWER LIP INTERRUPTED ...
Walter J. Rainboth, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PELVIC FIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pelvic fin is used in the context of the following news items.
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GRCA warns of invasive species at Elora Gorge
Identified by the predominant black dot on their top fins, they have a fully scaled body and they have a fused pelvic fin, which acts like a suction ... «Wellington Advertiser, Jul 15»
2
VIDEO: Maui Stream Research Traces the Life and Movement of …
A fifth species ('o'opu akupa) does not have a fused pelvic fin, “but nature has provided for it, by making it a carnivore,” according to biologists. «Maui Now, Jul 15»
3
Old-school angler still has a likin' for pikin'
Removing a pike from the pail, he used scissors to cut a two-inch strip from its flank surrounding its pelvic fin. Hooking it, he flipped it into the ... «News & Observer, Jun 15»
4
The Mysterious Evolution of Shark Penis: Blame Sonic the …
... researchers determined that claspers start to form in males during a late phase of pelvic fin development - almost as if these sex organs rise ... «Nature World News, May 15»
5
How shark 'penises' evolved
After comparing male and female embryos, they observed that claspers start to form in males during a late phase of pelvic fin development. «Science /AAAS, Apr 15»
6
Extremely Rare Deep-Water Pocket Shark Caught in Gulf of Mexico
First dorsal fin origin slightly anterior to body midpoint; insertion above pelvic fin origin. Interdorsal length less than caudal peduncle length. «Sci-News.com, Apr 15»
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Some Great Sharks are Enjoying Cape and Islands
Skomal said they all have different coloring patterns around the face, gills, tail and pelvic fin. White sharks also are a slow-growing, long-lived ... «ecoRI news, Mar 15»
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360-million-year-old tetrapod may have looked similar to a crocodile
Researchers discovered a well-preserved pelvis and a partial pelvic fin from a 375 million-year-old fossil of a transitional species, Tiktaalik ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
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The King of Dwarves gets a name!
Pectoral fin hyaline; pelvic fin black. Caudal fin uniformly yellow orange, appearing slightly darker than similarly colored portions of dorsal and ... «Practical Fishkeeping, Jan 15»
10
Tilapia lures effective for Hyco bass
However, dorsal and pelvic fin colors are red or yellow. “You can get shallow-divers or big-lipped deep-divers,” Joyce said. Tilapia have been ... «North Carolina Sportsman, Jan 15»

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