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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

Cauda

tail. Cf.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.

The male widow-bird, remarkable for his

caudal

plumes.

Darwin.

Caudal fin

(Zool.)

the terminal fin (or “tail”) of a fish.

Adj.

Pertaining to a tail; or to the thread which terminates the seed of a plant.