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caudal

adj
/ˈkɔːdəl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).

  1. borrowed from caudālis — “having a tail”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.

    • The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, […]
    • Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

  2. Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body

    Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.

  3. A caudal vertebra.

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Derived

acaudal, anterocaudal, bicaudal, caudal artery, caudal fin, caudality, caudalization, caudal keel, caudally, caudalmost, caudal peduncle, caudalward, cephalocaudal, craniocaudal, distocaudal, dorsocaudal, femorocaudal, frontocaudal, laterocaudal, lumbocaudal, mediocaudal, midcaudal, pericaudal, postcaudal, posterocaudal, precaudal, proximocaudal, rostrocaudal, sacrocaudal, subcaudal, supracaudal, tricaudal, ventrocaudal

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at caudal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at caudal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at caudal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA