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caudal, a. Zool.|ˈkɔːdəl|
[ad. mod.L. caudāl-is, f. cauda tail.]
Of or belonging to the tail; situated in or near the tail; of the nature of a tail.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 30 Three drops of the bloud out of the caudale veine of a boor Cat. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 126 It wanted the pectoral, ventral, and caudal fins. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. 445 Its body is round, having as yet no appearance of caudal appendages. 1849Murchison Siluria xii. 303 The superior and inferior spines of the caudal vertebræ. 1871Darwin Desc. Man I. viii. 269 The male.. bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 312 The caudal fin or tail.
b. quasi-n. (= caudal fin, vertebra, etc.)
1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 202 The ventrals and caudal are wanting. 1854Owen in Circ. Sc. (1865) II. 63/1 It continues marking off the anterior third of the centrum in all the other caudals. |