Crossword clues for caudal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caudal \Cau"dal\, a. [L. Cauda tail. Cf. Coward.] 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 (Zo["o]l.), the terminal fin (or ``tail'') of a fish. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Latin cauda "tail of an animal," which is of unknown origin, + -al (1).
Wiktionary
a. (context zoology English) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body. n. A caudal vertebra.
WordNet
adv. toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally]
Wikipedia
Caudal may refer to:
- Caudal (anatomical term) (from Latin caudum; tail), a synonym for the term "inferior or posterior" depending on the axis. In humans would typically mean inferior as that is towards the tail bone and in most animals posterior as that is towards the tail of the animal.
- Caudal (comarca), an administrative division of Asturias, Spain
- Caudal (protein), a subfamily of Hox genes
- Caudal (river), a river in northern Spain
- Caudal fin, the tail fin of a fish
- Caudal vertebrae, the vertebrae that make up the tail of tailed animals
- Caudate nucleus, one of three basic structures that make up the basal ganglia
Caudal is one of 8 comarcas administrative divisions of Asturias, an autonomous community in Spain.
The comarca of Caudal is divided into three municipalities. They are:
- Lena
- Aller
- Mieres
Category:Comarcas of Asturias
The Caudal is a river in northern Spain flowing through the Autonomous Community of Asturias.
Category:Rivers of Spain Category:Rivers of Asturias
The caudal family of homeobox transcription factors are regulators of embryonic development and hematopoiesis in vertebrates. They are also involved in the development of some types of gastrointestinal cancers and leukemias.
Humans have three genes ( CDX1, CDX2, and CDX4) that encode caudal proteins.
Usage examples of "caudal".
It invariably obstructs the circulation of my magnificent caudal appendage.
Cugel descended to the pens where a dozen worms idled at the surface of the water, or moved slowly to the thrust of their caudal flukes.
The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage.
As a consequence, a caudal appendage with two broken joints was one of his distinguishing features.
He might have been fingering an old war wound around the caudal vertebra.
Belinovski gives an account of a hip-joint amputation and extirpation of a fatty caudal extremity, the only one he had ever observed.
In accordance with this abbreviated development, the caudal membranous crest does not exist, and the branchial aperture closes as soon as the external gills disappear.
It invariably obstructs the circulation of my magnificent caudal appendage.
Lankwiler and Cugel descended to the pens where a dozen worms idled at the surface of the water, or moved slowly to the thrust of their caudal flukes.
The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage.
A la chiticallando el Comendador es proteiforme: dialoga con los médicos de cabecera, conferencia con los testaferros del Banco, niega su óbolo a la baronesa de Servus, que blande el cetro perentorio del Socorro Antihebreo, biseca su caudal en dos ramas, de las cuales destina la mayor al hijo legítimo —una millonada sumida en los raudos convoyes del Soterraño, que se triplicará en un lustro— y la menor, dormijosa en frugales cédulas, para el hijo habido en buena guerra, Eliseo Requena.
On the other hand, Hrrestan's caudal appendage was curved slightly, showing that he was at ease.
With the practice of many childhood years, Todd reached for the length of rope, carefully frayed at the end to resemble the tufted tip of the Hrruban caudal appendage.
Taking the ape-man by the shoulder he turned him around so that Tarzan's back was toward him and then, touching the end of Tarzan's spine with his forefinger, he curled his own tail up over his shoulder and, wheeling the ape-man about again, pointed first at Tarzan and then at his own caudal appendage, a look of puzzlement upon his face, the while he jabbered excitedly in his strange tongue.
Following that development, the Columi begin living almost entirely in the trees, developing hands in place of claws and evolving a prehensile tail in place of the heavy caudal appendage that they had dragged around as quadrupeds.