Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a tail or taillike appendage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a tail.
  • Having a tail-like appendage.
  • noun A member of the amphibian order Caudata; a tailed batrachian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a tail; having a terminal appendage like a tail. Opposite of acaudate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Tapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.
  • adjective zoology Having a tail.
  • adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the Caudata order of amphibians

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip
  • noun amphibians that resemble lizards
  • adjective having a tail or taillike appendage
  • noun a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin caudātus, from Latin cauda, tail.]

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Latin cauda ("tail").

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