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caudal peduncles

caudal peduncles is the plural of caudal peduncle.

Meaning of caudal peduncle

Noun

caudal peduncle (plural caudal peduncles)

  1. The narrow part of a fish's body to which the caudal or tail fin is attached. Its proportions, such as the length and breadth, and attached organs, such as spines of surgeonfishes or caudal keels and finlets of Scombridae often are important in descriptions of fish species.

Questions about caudal peduncles

What is caudal peduncles the plural of?
Caudal peduncles is the plural of caudal peduncle.

Words near caudal peduncles in the dictionary

  1. caudal fin
  2. caudal fins
  3. caudal keel
  4. caudal keels
  5. caudal peduncle
  6. caudal peduncles
  7. caudalise
  8. caudalised
  9. caudality
  10. caudalization
  11. caudalizations

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