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(zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body. quotations
the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes
1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […]
Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3
(anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior. examples
plural caudals
A caudal vertebra. examples