finny
[fin-ee]
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adjective, fin·ni·er, fin·ni·est.
Origin of finny
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Historical Examples of finny
Our success was greater with the finny, than was that of any exquisite with the fair tribe.
Rattlin the ReeferEdward Howard
A whale differs also in many other respects from the finny tribe proper.
Due WestMaturin Murray Ballou
It was the most delectable of all the finny genus, superior even to the pompano.
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!Meredith Nicholson
In two of them he found some fish, so dense was the finny multitude.
Creatures of the AbyssMurray Leinster
Are they simply a poetical transfiguration of finny forms of the flood?
The Testimony of TraditionDavid MacRitchie
finny
adjective -nier or -niest
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