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Definition of Tail fin

1. Noun. A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane.

2. Noun. One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile.

3. Noun. The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates.

Definition of Tail fin

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of tailfin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tail Fin

tail-bays tail-flower tail-specific protease tail away tail between one's legs tail block tail bone tail bud tail coat tail dragger

tail draggers tail end tail ends tail feather tail fin (current term) tail fins tail fold tail gate tail gunner tail lamp

tail lift tail lifts tail of caudate nucleus tail of dentate gyrus tail of helix tail of pancreas tail off tail pad

Literary usage of Tail fin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"93) the permanent tail-fin becomes marked out and defined from the primitive fin, ... The permanent tail-fin appears almost like a second anal fin (Fig. ..."

2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"There is still a third style in which the tail-fin is vertebrated but yet ... If, in the other case, we had a vertebrated tail-fin, in this we have legged ..."

3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"The ventral lobe with its rays continues to grow more prominent and causes the tail fin to become bilobed (fig. 36 B); there being a dorsal embryonic lobe ..."

4. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The opening and closing movements seen in all the fins are particularly observable in the caudal or tail fin which is divided into two portions. Flo. 1. ..."

5. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Evolution of the tail fin of fishes, backbone turning up- (After Dean.) A, embryonic tail fin; C, uneven- war(Js with an unequal lobed tail fin of the Port ..."

6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The ventral lobe with its rays continues to grow more prominent and causes the tail fin to become bilobed (fig. 36 B); there being a dorsal embryonic lobe ..."

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