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| het·er·o·cer·cal [ hèttərō súrk'l ] |
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like a shark's tail: describes a fish's tail in which the vertebral column bends upward and extends into the upper and larger lobe of the tail fin, as in some sharks
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| [Mid-19th century. <hetero- + Greek kerkos "tail"] |
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