a. [ad. mod.L. ēcaudāt-us, f. ē (see E-3) + L. cauda tail: see -ATE.]

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  1.  Zool. That has no tail, or a very short one.

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1847–9.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 4/1. Animals … changing their form to caudate or ecaudate at pleasure.

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1856–8.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 52. Astusice. Body not loricated, caudate or ecaudate, form mutable.

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  2.  Bot. ‘Spikeless, without a stem’ (Paxton, Bot. Dict., 1840).

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