caudal appendage

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What would a monkey do without this caudal appendage and its prehensile quality?

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Fromentel described a fresh-water form of this genus with a caudal appendage.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

So they got more tail and spliced it on to his caudal appendage.

From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)

All the members of this tribe bear the caudal appendage, and, as Oriental imagination is given to exaggeration, I was assured that the tails sometimes attained the length of two feet.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The idle moments afforded him an opportunity to evolve a more satisfactory scheme for attaching his stolen caudal appendage.

From Tarzan the Terrible by Burroughs, Edgar Rice