Caudation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Caudation is a noun meaning The property of having a caudate extension or tail.
Meaning
The property of having a caudate extension or tail.
More Meanings
- A caudate extension or tail.
- (medicine) A fibrous growth.
- (writing) A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.
- (writing) The addition of a caudation.
Example Sentences
the Amblypodia group presents a more or less elongated form of hindwing with some variety in the shape and caudation ;
Its distinguishing features, such as alation, hingement, posterior caudation, etc., are also found in other subfamilies of Cytheridae.
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;
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.
Word Forms
- caudations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caudality, caudicula, caudoversion, caudex, curtal, uncus.
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