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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being heterocercal; inequality of the lobes of the caudal fin: opposed to homocercy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

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  • noun anatomy unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

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Ancient Greek

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