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Definition of Finlike
1. a. Resembling a fin.
Definition of Finlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a fin, especially in shape. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Finlike
1. resembling a fin [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finlike
Literary usage of Finlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Family Lyceum by Josiah Holbrook (1854)
"This finlike substance undergoes a constant change as the fish grows older.
At fourteen days the dorsal, adipose, caudal, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Certain Kinds of Fish: With the by Theodatus Garlick (1857)
"This finlike substance undergoes a constant change as the fish grows older.
At fourteen days the dorsal, adipose, caudal and anal fins are plainly seen, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"Body provided with a pair of conspicuous lateral swimming appendages, or cirri,
immediately back of head ; posterior extremity broad and finlike ; proboscis ..."
4. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"Our definition excludes, of course, whales, porpoises, and others having apparently
rather finlike limbs, but breathing by lungs. A little farther away are ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... forgetful of the prodigious weight which he constantly carries behind, and
the feebleness of his finlike flappers, nothing less will satisfy him than to ..."
6. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"... they have all a strong family likeness, and may be recognised at once by their
compressed bodies, finlike tails, and the general absence of well-marked ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"This Roes hae- be-en usually considered as a distinct species, but is without
doubt only a form of If. finlike, originated in cultivation. ..."
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