Taillessness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Taillessness is a noun meaning The state or condition of being tailless; lack of a tail.
Meaning
The state or condition of being tailless; lack of a tail.
Example Sentences
Prior to this study “there were many hypotheses about why hominoids evolved to be tailless,” the most common of which connected taillessness to upright posture and the evolution of bipedal walking, said lead study author Bo Xia, a research fellow in the Gene Regulation Observatory and principal investigator at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include footlessness, hatlessness, featherlessness, leaflessness, leglessness, tracklessness.
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