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Flipper   Listen
noun
Flipper  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
2.
(Naut.) The hand. (Slang)





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"Flipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... an instinct is to be sought in the nerve centers, since it is there that the cooerdination of the muscles is accomplished. A wing or flipper would be of no use unless its muscles were excited to action by the nerve centers, and it would be of very little use unless the nerve centers were so organized as to arouse the muscles in a certain combination, and ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth


Words linked to "Flipper" :   aquatic vertebrate, fin, squareflipper square flipper, flipper-like, limb, aquatic mammal, flip


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