Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no tail: specifically noting male or female specimens of the common hen so characterized. The lack is not only of the tail-feathers, but of muscular and bony parts of the rump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a rump.
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- adjective Destitute of a
rump .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In three rumpless fowls the caudal vertebræ were few in number, and anchylosed together into a misformed mass.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The rumpless fowl has no tail, and in a bird which I kept alive the oil-gland had aborted; but this bird, though the os coccygis was extremely imperfect, had a vestige of a tail with two rather long feathers in the position of the outer caudals.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The skull of a crested, rumpless, white Turkish fowl is very slightly protuberant, and but little perforated; the ascending branches of the premaxillary {265} are well developed.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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It was the lanky, rumpless guy she'd seen before when she was there.
East Bay Express Sue Bowden 2010
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Such sports are known in some cases to have been parents of some of our domestic races; and such probably have been the parents of many other races, especially of those which in some senses may be called hereditary monsters; for instance where there is an additional limb, or where all the limbs are stunted (as in the Ancon sheep), or where a part is wanting, as in rumpless fowls and tailless dogs or cats {190}.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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This bird came from a family where, as I was told, the breed had kept true for twenty years; but rumpless fowls often produce chickens with tails. [
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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