caudal appendage

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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)

For the first time I appreciated why a fox has such a light, long, fluffy caudal appendage.

From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Pope, Saxton

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

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 Leighton, Robert

Of course there might have been more than a tremor if the caudal appendage had been at liberty instead of being sat upon.

From The Hot Swamp by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)