a. [ad. L. caudāt-us, f. cauda tail; see -ATE.]

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  1.  Having a tail, tailed.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, XIV. xliv. 259. How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram’d.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. Birds … black, ceruleous, caudate, cristate.

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1837.  Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, iv. (1844), 180. A caudate variety of the human species.

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  2.  Furnished with a structure or appendage resembling a tail: a. Zool.

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1839–47.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 647/2. Caudate nerve-vesicles. Ibid. (1847–9), IV. 120. The caudate cell is held to arise from the prolongation of opposite points of the wall of a spherical cell.

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1854.  Woodward, Mollusca, II. 283. The caudate species of Trigonia.

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  b.  Bot.

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1830.  in Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot.

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1851.  T. Moore, Brit. Ferns (1864), 66. The very much attenuated apices of the fronds and their pinnæ, which are … what is called caudate.

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1880.  Gray, Bot. Text-bk., 401. Caudate.… Furnished with … a slender tip or appendage resembling a tail.

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