(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
(n.) The hand.
(n.) A blade of whalebone.
(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
(n.) A feather; a spline.
(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
Example Sentences:
(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) Since there is a body of literature indicating that preexposure to low levels of metals may increase tolerance during subsequent exposure, these experiments were designed to investigate the effects of preexposure to cadmium, using fin regeneration as the parameter of effect.
(3) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(4) Electron microscopy discloses axons in the mesodermal mesenchyme and in the epidermis of the bud as early as stage I of the development of the pelvic fins.
(5) The fins are formed by a longitudinal tegument fold containing the same components as the remaining part of the tail tegument.
(6) The dorsal fin mesenchyme expresses vimentin at stage 26.
(7) In this situation one could fins concentrated not only the various stands of protolife necessary for the final act of biopoesis, but also perbiologically formed nutrients necessary as for the first eobionts.
(8) These data and independent scanning electron microscopy indicated that a resident population of predominantly Blastobacter bacteria was present as a biofilm on the supply-side cooling coil fins.
(9) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(10) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
(11) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
(12) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(13) The fish of these groups completed translocation of the right eye to the left side and resorption of elongated dorsal fin rays.
(14) Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) are found primarily in the dorsal fin and in the ECM surrounding the notochord.
(15) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(16) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(17) In light of previous descriptions of Crassicauda infections in balaenopterids, this implied that C. boopis should at present be considered a renal parasite of fin whales, and perhaps other rorquals, throughout the world's oceans.
(18) The US-based group said it encountered an illegal shark finning operation run by a Costa Rican ship, the Varadero, and told the crew to stop and head to port to be prosecuted.
(19) We have used 14 restriction endonucleases to investigate the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of fin whales, 13 enzymes for sei whales, and 8 enzymes for the minke whale.
(20) The researchers estimated that global reported catches, unreported landings, discards and sharks caught and thrown back after their fins were cut off – a process known as finning – added up to 97 million fish caught in 2010.
Skeg
Definition:
(n.) A sort of wild plum.
(n.) A kind of oats.
(n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 1980s, the British government tried to claim that the beaches of Brighton, Blackpool, Skegness and many other resorts weren’t used for bathing, to avoid dealing with the sewage, condoms and tampons that polluted them.
(2) Able to live on his savings from the restaurant, he took up his place; Dusty went to Skegness to work as a waitress.
(3) Nuttall will stand for Boston and Skegness in the June election, after losing the Stoke-on-Trent Central byelection in February.
(4) Mark Simmonds, conservative MP for Boston and Skegness, has resigned, citing the intolerable pressure of trying to live in London on an MP’s expenses.
(5) In the 2013 local elections, this county saw Ukip's best single result , when 16 new Ukip county councillors were elected, and the party became the official opposition; among the parliamentary seats that are reckoned to be vulnerable to a Ukip surge are Labour-held Great Grimsby, and Boston and Skegness, currently represented by the Tories.
(6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
(7) Skegness Tidal Surge A surge results in a particularly high tide in Skegness on the evening of Thursday 5 December 2013.
(8) Ukip under the current leadership, without positive radical policies, is finished as an electoral force.” The party lost 10 seats in Lincolnshire, where Nuttall has decided to run in the general election in the Boston and Skegness seat .
(9) Don't let the name put you off: Skegness (nicknamed Skeggy) has a wonderful beach, wide and largely empty, especially to the south towards Gibraltar Point.
(10) Moby doesn’t float my boat Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three dead whales wash up on Skegness beach – video After the heartbreak of the recent stranded whales , it’s lovely to see such a happy creature on the shores of Loch Nevis.
(11) Three dead sperm whales wash up on Skegness beach Read more These young males head north, enter the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, and unfortunately find this shallow sea a natural trap – difficult to navigate and short of food.
(12) And in the last chance saloon, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall said he would stand in the heavily Brexit-supporting constituency of Boston and Skegness as support for his party drops by the week, with many voters defecting to the Tories.
(13) Robert Pert, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, is among those hit by this loophole.
(14) After a lunch of strong tea and fish and chips in Mablethorpe, where children can jump on a small fleet of donkeys (and we gambled a plastic cupload of pennies in the amusement arcade), we dined out at the Windmill restaurant in Burgh-Le-Marsh, a few miles inland from Skegness.
(15) The Ministry of Defence said about 100 soldiers from the Catterick army base in Yorkshire had been deployed to Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast, where about 3,000 residents were urged to leave their homes or move upstairs.
(16) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(17) Well, for every teacher heading to Saudi Arabia, there’s a classroom in Skegness missing one.
(18) On a grim and blustery morning in the town some people know as "Skeg", conversations with locals suggest a town much more weary and fatalistic than Great Yarmouth, although people have a similar litany of complaints: awful local roads, shut-down shops, an economy that effectively dies for half the year.
(19) The first is the direct threat of a Ukip victory in a handful of mostly Conservative seats, such as South Thanet, Boston and Skegness, Castle Point, and Thurrock.
(20) After being unfrocked, Davidson eked out a living as an entertainer on the seafront at Skegness - where, in 1937, he was mauled to death by a lion.