caudal appendage

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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)

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)

When this caudal appendage was fixed, and my whole appearance touched up, I caught sight of myself in a mirror, and, after a struggle with my pride, burst into a roar of laughter.

From In the Yellow Sea by Frith, Henry

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

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 De Mille, James