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adipose fins

adipose fins is the plural of adipose fin.

Meaning of adipose fin

Noun

adipose fin (plural adipose fins)

  1. A soft, fleshy fin located behind the dorsal fin and just forward of the caudal fin, found fish of certain families, believed to have some sensory function.

Questions about adipose fins

What is adipose fins the plural of?
Adipose fins is the plural of adipose fin.

Words near adipose fins in the dictionary

  1. adipopexis
  2. adipophilin
  3. adipophillin
  4. adipose
  5. adipose fin
  6. adipose fins
  7. adipose tissue
  8. adipose tissues
  9. adiposeness
  10. adiposes
  11. adiposis

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