noun
- A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane.
- synonyms: vertical stabilizer, vertical stabiliser, vertical fin, tailfin
- One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile.
- The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates.
- synonyms: caudal fin
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