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Home Dictionary Name: finFinned
Having a fin or fins or anything resembling a fin...
Fin keel
A projection downward from the keel of a yacht resembling in shape the fin of a fish though often with a cigar shaped bulb of lead at the bottom and generally made of metal Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water...
Soft finned
Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible without spines said of certain fishes...
fine
fine [Anglo-French fin fine & Medieval Latin finis end, boundary, agreement, payment for release or privilege, monetary penalty, from Latin finis end, boundary] 1 : a sum imposed as punishment for an offense compare restitution 2 : a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action vt fined fin·ing : to impose a fine on : punish by fine ...
finger
finger fin·gered fin·ger·ing : to accuse or identify as guilty [was fingered simply because he fit the stereotype of a young, black street criminal "Jack Ewing"] ...
Finlet
A little fin one of the parts of a divided fin...
VerbarGinglymodi
An order of ganoid fishes including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms They have rhombic ganoid scales a heterocercal tail paired fins without an axis fulcra on the fins and a bony skeleton with the vertebraelig convex in front and concave behind forming a ball and socket joint See Ganoidel...
VerbarMalacopterygii
An order of fishes in which the fin rays except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins are closely jointed and not spiny It includes the carp pike salmon shad etc Called also Malacopteri...
VerbarMuraeligna
A genus of large eels of the family Muraelignidaelig They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal and anal fins continuous The murry Muraeligna Helenaelig of Southern Europe was the muraeligna of the Romans It is highly valued as a food fish...
confine
confine con·fined con·fin·ing : to hold within a location ;specif : imprison ...
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