Caudation

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The property of having a caudate extension or tail..

Definitions by Sense

1. The property of having a caudate extension or tail.
2. A caudate extension or tail.
3. (medicine) A fibrous growth.
4. (writing) A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.
5. (writing) The addition of a caudation.

Example Sentences

In the meantime, while the daily newspapers of New York are talking over their "Aztec race" the Academy of Sciences at Paris has its grave announcement in a communication from M. de Castelnan, a duplicate of which we find in the Bulletic of the 'Socièté de Geographie respecting the NIAM-NIAMS, a people of Central Africa, to the southwest of the Lake Tchad, a people of whom there have been some scattered rumors before, suggesting to a modern Monboddo a " theory of caudation," in fact a people wearing indisputable natural tails.

There is a slight approach in several examples (of both sexes) to caudation of the hind-wing on first median nervule and submedian nervure, and in specimens from Delagoa Bay (two males, three females) this tendency is more pronounced.

Its distinguishing features, such as alation, hingement, posterior caudation, etc., are also found in other subfamilies of Cytheridae.

the Amblypodia group presents a more or less elongated form of hindwing with some variety in the shape and caudation ;

Crawley, who what with the habit of cerebral hallucination due to brandy and the present flutter of his spirits and his conscience, had for a moment or two lost all landmarks of probability, no sooner felt his hand encounter a tail — slight in size, but stiff as a pug's, and straight as a pointer's —than he uttered a dismal howl, and it is said that for a single moment he really suspected premature caudation had been inflicted on him for his crimes.

The fox, as in the old fable, has lost his tail, and must needs go about now most disinterestedly preaching that everybody else, who find their tails very useful, must submit to de-caudation, and because he has got the gout, must not use the bounties of God in moderation.

Thin; most leaves incurved-acuminate into a straight caudation; radicals various, large and long, broad and small, regular or lop-sided, their teeth big and remotish or very remote.

Polypary minute and tapering ; about 1 cm. in length, having a very narrow proximal portion which is protracted so as to form a long caudation;

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