caudal appendage
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That is to say a larger number of individuals are born without any caudal appendage or only a stump of a tail than in any other variety of dogs.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
Stand still, with a nip like crocodile's grip On one's caudal appendage?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various
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
Little ones play romping games, like "Cat and Mouse," "London Bridge," etc.; those a little older enjoy a peanut hunt or a peanut race, or supplying the donkey with a caudal appendage.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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