Crossword-Solution: HETEROCERCAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heterocercal | a. | Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks. |
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| TAIL with unequal lobes (of fossil fish) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMEZA
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eruption
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Sentences with HETEROCERCAL (5)
Agassiz has called “Heterocercal,” which have their tails unequally bilobate, like the recent shark and sturgeon, and the vertebral column running along the upper caudal lobe.
This so called heterocercal tail is only known to exist, as a permanent adult feature, in the sturgeons of to-day.
Then with all his force the captain drove the pole down; the aim was good, for the next instant there was a tremendous swirl in the water, the long, heterocercal tail, through which the creature's spine was continued to the end of the upper lobe, rose above the surface, and was brought down with a tremendous blow which raised a shower, and at the same time Captain Bradleigh's arms were dragged lower and lower, till he loosened his hold, and the pole of the boat-hook disappeared.
They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint.
There's trilobites in Bala bed, Product as in coal shale, There's mony a fish in Auld, Auld Red, Wi' heterocercal tail; There's no a Mezozoic rock Hauds trilobites within, There's mony a Palæozoic block Whar trilobites are seen.