CAUDAL APPENDAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caudal appendage mean? 

• CAUDAL APPENDAGE (noun)
  The noun CAUDAL APPENDAGE has 1 sense:

1. tail especially of a mammal posterior to and above the anus

  Familiarity information: CAUDAL APPENDAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUDAL APPENDAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tail especially of a mammal posterior to and above the anus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("caudal appendage" is a kind of...):

tail (the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body)

Holonyms ("caudal appendage" is a part of...):

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)