tail fin vs heterocercal fin

tail fin and heterocercal fin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tail fin	Yes	No	No	No
heterocercal fin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, heterocercal fin is a hyponym of tail fin; that is, heterocercal fin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tail fin:

tail fin: the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
heterocercal fin: a tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks

Other hyponyms of tail fin include homocercal fin.

tail fin (noun)	heterocercal fin (noun)
the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates	a tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks
a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane
one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile

tail fin vs heterocercal fin

tail fin and heterocercal fin both are nouns.

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