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flipper

flipper

1. the flat broad limb of seals, whales, penguins, and other aquatic animals, specialized for swimming

2. either of a pair of rubber paddle-like devices worn on the feet as an aid in swimming, esp underwater

3. Cricket a ball bowled with topspin imparted by the action of the bowler's wrist

flipper [′flip·ər]

(vertebrate zoology)

A broad, flat appendage used for locomotion by aquatic mammals and sea turtles.

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