caudal appendage
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Fred was fully imbued with the “spirit of the occasion,” and resolved not to part company with his guide, unless the caudal appendage should detach itself from its owner.
From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Edward Sylvester Ellis
We might add that in the abdominal appendage of the cockroach we have a compound nose, while in the feelers of the Perla, and the caudal appendage of the Chrysopila, the "nose" is simple.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Like our five fingers, our ear-bones, our rudimentary caudal appendage, or our other 'vestigial' peculiarities, they may remain as indelible tokens of events in our race-history.
From Pragmatism by William James
Portion of caudal appendage of Lithotrya dorsalis, highly magnified.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
List! oh, list! and I will my caudal appendage unfold.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 by Various
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