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View definitions for dorsal

dorsal

adjective as in posterior

noun as in fin

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Winter had put a life vest on the dog resembling a shark, with a dorsal fin protruding from its back.

Yet sea robins are most notable for their distinctively large, fan-shaped dorsal fins and for their six leg-like appendages.

From Salon

The dorsal fin is like a dolphin's fingerprint, as each has distinctive notches, ridges and pigmentation.

From BBC

Wide and pitch black, it had no dorsal fin.

“I never thought I’d be holding the dorsal fin of a great white shark and applying this type of technology,” Michalove said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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