Tail-fan


noun, Zoology.
1.
the fanlike posterior appendage of crayfish and lobsters, consisting of a telson and two uropods, used for rapid backward propulsion.
noun
1.
the fanned structure at the hind end of a lobster or related crustacean, formed from the telson and uropods

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