Crossword-Solution: HOMOCERCAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Homocercal | a. | Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal. |
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| of fishes, having the upper and lower lobes of the tail-fin alike | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with HOMOCERCAL (5)
This type of caudal fin must be regarded as secondary, the _Gadidae_ being, no doubt, derived from fishes in which the homocercal fin of the typical Teleostean had been lost.
The condition of the caudal fin, which in the cod tribe departs so markedly from that of ordinary Teleosteans, is in itself a sufficient reason for dismissing the idea of the homocercal flat-fishes being derived from the Anacanthini, and the whole structure of the two types of fishes speaks against such an assumption.
Another curious illustration of the diminishing necessity for air-breathing to the fishes, is the change of the tail from the unequally-lobed or heterocercal form, which prevailed in the Palæozoic, to the more modern equally-lobed (homocercal) style in the Mesozoic.
The former is better suited to animals which have to rise rapidly to the surface for air, and is still continued in some modern fishes, which for other reasons need to ascend and descend, or to turn themselves in the water; but the homocercal form is best suited to the ordinary fish, whether Ganoids or Teleosts (Fig.
HETEROCERCAL, het-er-o-s[.e]r'kal, _adj._ having the upper fork of the tail different from or longer than the lower, as the shark:--opposed to _Homocercal_.--_n._ HET'EROCERCY.