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Definition of Finny
1. a. Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
Definition of Finny
1. Adjective. (context: of a fish) Having one or more fins ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a fin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Finny
1. having or characterized by fins [adj -NIER, -NIEST]
Medical Definition of Finny
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Finny
Literary usage of Finny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"Some finny friends worth knowing and how to know them; or twenty-five families
of familiar fishes, and a key. THIS talk is somewhat in the form of an ..."
2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1882)
"Dr. finny, continuing his " Practical Notes on some Local Forms of Eczema," in
... Dr. finny finds lotions often suit better than ointments and gives the ..."
3. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1877)
"finny, Edw. Hamilton, for Stealing, 15m 13 f—22 mil/" Fish, Putrid, Application
to Condemn, 30 j 110 Fitchett, Geo., for Indecently Exposing himself, ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1894)
"... be returned after some years to bis own cloister of finny, and by his academic
gifts raised its school to great renown. He wrote on astronomy, ..."
5. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"303 Paltry and proud, a* </. in Drury-lane .£. vii. 64 Drag. Go drive the Deer,
and tí. the finny prey S. iv. 113 Dragg'd. ..."
6. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"CHAPTER VII finny Favorites Nothing attracts human nature more powerfully than
tempting the unknown with a fishing lint. —Henry Van Dyke. ver since the ..."
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