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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Heterocercal

/hĕtˌ-ẽr-ōs-ẽrk'-əl/ · Het·er·o·cer·cal · IPA /hˌɛtəroʊsˈɜrkəl/
01 a. Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.
  1. 1.
    Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.(Anat.)