a spinelike scale occurring in rows along the anterior edge of the fins in primitive bony fishes such as the sturgeon
Word origin
C17: from Latin: foot of a couch, bedpost, from fulcire to prop up
Examples of 'fulcra' in a sentence
fulcra
Such fulcra are not required for meaningfully integrating adjuncts.
Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes 2008, 'Adjunction, Labeling, and Bare Phrase Structure', Biolinguisticshttp://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/40. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)