caudal

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).

adj

  1. (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
    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
  2. (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.

noun

  1. A caudal vertebra.

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