a. Zool. [ad. mod.L. caudāl-is, f. cauda tail.] Of or belonging to the tail; situated in or near the tail; of the nature of a tail.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 30. Three drops of the bloud out of the caudale veine of a boor Cat.

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1769.  Pennant, Zool., III. 126. It wanted the pectoral, ventral, and caudal fins.

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1841–71.  T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd., 445. Its body is round, having as yet no appearance of caudal appendages.

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1849.  Murchison, Siluria, xii. 303. The superior and inferior spines of the caudal vertebræ.

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1871.  Darwin, Desc. Man, I. viii. 269. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, certainly seems to be a polygamist.

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1872.  H. A. Nicholson, Palæont., 312. The caudal fin or tail.

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  b.  quasi-sb. (= caudal fin, vertebra, etc.)

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1834.  McMurtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 202. The ventrals and caudal are wanting.

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1854.  Owen, in Circ. Sc. (1865), II. 63/1. It continues marking off the anterior third of the centrum in all the other caudals.

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