NOUN
- the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane
How To Use tail fin In A Sentence
- The tail fin of most ray-finned fish, with the exception of sturgeons and paddlefish, is homocercal, nearly symmetrical about the midline.
- The cat's tail finished in white.
- The lanceolate tail fin with the many-rayed upper and lower margins and central little supplementary fin projecting beyond the fin margin distinguishes Latimeria from all other living fishes.
- Each included a laser seeker, guidance unit, control canards bolted to the bomb's nose, and enlarged tail fins bolted to the rear.
- The aircraft has a long tail fin.
- In trying to recover from the turbulence, the first officer moved the rudder, the big fin on the back of the tail fin, the moveable piece, back and forth, back and forth.
- This fish may be distinguished from codling by the long filaments of the ventral fins and the more rounded tail fin.
- The fish uses its tail fins for propulsion through the water.
- The aircraft has a long tail fin.
- The second possibility centres on the 27-foot-tall tail fin, the loss of which renders an aircraft impossible to control.
