Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Heterocercal \Het`er*o*cer"cal\, a. [Hetero- + Gr. ? tail.]
(Anat.)
Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the
upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the
lower one, as in sharks.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
heterocercal
adj 1: possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the
lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the
upper lobe [ant: homocercal]