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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 thetail lobes offishes ; the possession of aheterocercal tail.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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