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单词 caudal
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caudaladj.

/ˈkɔːdəl/
Etymology: < modern Latin caudālis, < cauda tail.
Zoology.
a. Of or belonging to the tail; situated in or near the tail; of the nature of a tail.
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 30 Three drops of the bloud out of the caudale veine of a boor Cat.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 126 It wanted the pectoral, ventral, and caudal fins.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xvii. 349 Its body is round, having as yet no appearance of caudal appendages.
1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xii. 303 The superior and inferior spines of the caudal vertebræ.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. viii. 269 The male.. bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 312 The caudal fin or tail.
b. quasi-n. (= caudal fin, vertebra n., etc.)
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1831 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom II. 61 The ventrals and caudal are wanting.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 200 It continues marking off the anterior third of the centrum in all the other caudals.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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