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adj. - Having membranous appendages attached to the body of an animal, such as a fish.

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  • Among creatures were luminous jellyfish and gelatinous creatures known as finned octopods, or
  • What I'm wondering is how many sharks were 'finned' to whip up 20,000 bowls of shark fin soup?
  • Long-finned pilot whales can reach 20 feet in length.
  • Handed-or finned - down from their domesticated ancestors.
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  • Their attempt to "find" (to discover; recover; locate) a "finned" (having an external membranous process) creature in the lake resulted in being "fined" (to be ordered to pay a penalty for) for trespassing.
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