Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of fins: as, finless fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) destitute of fins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lacking afin or fins, without fins.
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Examples
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This porpoise's main characteristics are the lack of any dorsal fin (hence the name "finless"), the lack of a beak and the rounded forehead, which rises steeply from the animal's snout, often forming a bulbous "melon" above the upper lip.
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This porpoise's main characteristics are the lack of any dorsal fin (hence the name "finless"), the lack of a beak and the rounded forehead, which rises steeply from the animal's snout, often forming a bulbous "melon" above the upper lip.
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This porpoise's main characteristics are the lack of any dorsal fin (hence the name "finless"), the lack of a beak and the rounded forehead, which rises steeply from the animal's snout, often forming a bulbous "melon" above the upper lip.
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When the divers swam down deeper, they found a shocking amount of sharks lying on the ocean floor, finless.
January Jones: 2,000 Sharks Massacred in Colombian Sanctuary January Jones 2011
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Here's the home waters of the rare finless brown trout
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Good job with the dad encouraging .... what's next? .... finless brown trout?
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Good job with the dad encouraging .... what's next? .... finless brown trout?
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When the divers swam down deeper, they found a shocking amount of sharks lying on the ocean floor, finless.
January Jones: 2,000 Sharks Massacred in Colombian Sanctuary January Jones 2011
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One of the divers provided a video that shows the finless bodies of dead sharks on the ocean floor.
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Here's the home waters of the rare finless brown trout
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