caudal appendage
Example Sentences
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This beast had but a short caudal appendage, and all its terrors lay in its jaws and in its wings.
From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man One simious line in unbroken extendage; Development only since first it began— And chiefly in losing the caudal appendage.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
In the animal's body, the most obvious distinctive character is the uniarticulate caudal appendage.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
I remember one day resolving to broach the delicate subject with my tailed friend, whom I liked, notwithstanding his caudal appendage.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
List! oh, list! and I will my caudal appendage unfold.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 by Various
