caudal appendage
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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 Darwin, Charles
Then comes the caudal appendage, worth half a dollar.
From A History of the Town of Fairfax by Rust, Jeanne Johnson
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 James, William
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)
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)
