What is "tailless"

Usage examples of "tailless".

We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions,--as the stump of a tail in tailless breeds,--the vestige of an ear in earless breeds,--the reappearance of minute dangling horns in hornless breeds of cattle, more especially, according to Youatt, in young animals,--and the state of the whole flower in the cauliflower.

A tailless, hornless devil, perhaps, dancing with an enormous gun, an ancient AK-47, its bolt long gone, the curved magazine carved from wood, and all of it dipped, once, into red enamel, worn now by hands, by processions.

The lagomys, or tailless hare, of the European eaves, is now found in the colder regions of North America.

The drawings were painstaking, inexpert representations of the potto in different attitudes, tailless, anxious.

It was no doubt my tailless potto, one of the most interesting of the primates: but alas short-lived.

On his other flank it was dwarfed by a set of pistons and hydraulics strung together into the skeleton of a tripedal dinosaur, tailless, but sprouting five hydraheads, each mounted with a different type of geological drill.

It had the flattish star shape of all the tailless, backboneless creatures of this world, yet with legs, arms, and head that parodied humankind.

Wanderer, Stonerapper, Shorttail, each as attentive as any one of the tailless Racs surrounding them.

The tailless Sunglow, on the other hand, despite her obvious attachment to Dotson, seemed less confident and even resentful.

Ho-don might see how greatly they differed from his own, and then wheeled about that the other might see that he was tailless, for it was upon this fact that his plan had been based, due to his recollection of the quarrel between Ta-den and Om-at, in which the Waz-don had claimed that Jad-ben-Otho had a long tail while the Ho-don had been equally willing to fight for his faith in the taillessness of his god.

The largest male was only a meter high, and they all looked to be a sort of tailless ape, with thinly spread, soft, downlike hair covering their bodies except the chests, rear ends, and parts of the faces.

They were tailless, had cloven hooves and small white eyes across which silvery nictitating membranes flashed.

Upright bipeds, albeit one tailless, they shared physical commonalties he could not hope, despite his best efforts, to emulate.

They also more closely resemble human beings than any primates outside the superfamily do, so they are sometimes called anthropoid apes to distinguish them from tailless monkeys.

Much farther, at about 100,000 astronomical units, are some billions of tailless comets, kilometer-size snowballs slowly circling the distant sun.