fish fin

Fish fins are used to generate thrust and control the subsequent motion.

He'd come himself, but they changed both his feet into fish fins, and he hasn't yet managed to reverse the strange enchantment!"

The flanges protecting his neck were smooth and shaped like fish fins for this purpose.

Little Mermaid had the ability to turn her legs into fish fins, and breathe underwater for up to thirty hours.

Submarines of the future speed through the water with the help of wiggling fish fins.

The hill resembled a kind of fish fin running eastward to Twenty-eighth Street and beyond.

One, instead of fish fins, had what looked like round, translucent, whisper thin dried seed pods fifteen feet across.

Into it she plunged, the man in her second seal guiding the carpel's fall wtlh those fish fins.

Tanaka Gin paused with a sliver of grilled fish fin halfway to his mouth.

Or it may be because the number four originates with the four fish fins that predate mammal legs.

Two were rather vague images, perhaps of a rhomboid flipper (though others have dismissed the image as air bubbles or a fish fin).

Tung imitated fish fins with his waving fingers, and puffed his cheeks.

Onchi innovated by incorporating fabrics, string, paper blocks, fish fins, and leaves in his prints.

They thought it was part of the missing link between fishes and amphibians, helping to show how fish fins had evolved to become paired limbs.

I quickly noted, with considerable relief, that nothing like scales and fish fins were in evidence, either on his body or those of his new playmates.

When spiked correctly, the fish fins flare and the fish relaxes, immediately ceasing all motion.

It has simple fish fin grooves on its tail, and its dorsal fin, towards the rear.

Human by aspect, he is far more recognisable than his brothers because he has a shell earflare, a square-eye and a fish fin on his cheek.

Sirenomelia is so named because the birth defect involves the apparent fusing of the legs into a single lower limb, with the out-turned feet often resembling fish fins.

Sponsons stuck out of the sides of the fuselage like little fish fins, providing weapon stations and housing for the four 7.62-caliber machine guns and ammunition bays.

Although infection may be caused by direct injury from the fish fins or bites, most are acquired during the handling of the aquariums such as cleaning or changing the water.

Its powers include levitation, red eye lasers, launchable shuriken fish fins with extendable spear fingers, a forehead trident, and a back fish fin buzz saw.

When he was 7, he accidently jerked a fish fin into his right eye; the accident limited his ability to focus at distances but gave him exceptionally acute close-up vision in his left eye.

There, two years ago, Mr. Holtzman purchased (for one of those "stupid" prices) a rare Wedgwood ceramic vase by Dresser, decorated with a pattern of interlaced bird wing bones and fish fins.

We have to visualize the process of change as a gradual one, with progressive forays from the water, until the first animal with true limbs developed (the bony elements of the limb are present in the fish fin).