homocercal

Meaning of homocercal

adjective

(of a fish's tail) appearing outwardly symmetrical but with the backbone passing into the upper lobe, as in all higher fish.

mid 19th century: from homo- ‘same’ + Greek kerkos ‘tail’ + -al.

Information about homocercal

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of homocercal

ho-mo-cer-cal

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
  • homocercal is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Words that rhyme with homocercal

coenosarcal, perisarcal, Ercal, Kindercal, Lupercal, anisocercal, cephalocercal, cercal, dephycercal, diphycercal, gephyrocercal, heterocercal, isocercal, leptocercal, lophocercal, lupercal, mercal, novercal, protocercal, semiheterocercal, unnovercal, quircal, antefurcal, bifurcal, furcal, mesofurcal, postfurcal, trifurcal

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