caudate, a.
(ˈkɔːdeɪt)
[ad. L. caudāt-us, f. cauda tail; see -ate.]
1. Having a tail, tailed.
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso xiv. xliv. 259 How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram'd. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Birds..black, ceruleous, caudate, cristate. 1837 Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar iv. (1844) 180 A caudate variety of the human species. |
2. Furnished with a structure or appendage resembling a tail: a. Zool.
| 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 647/2 Caudate nerve-vesicles. 1847–9 Ibid. IV. 120 The caudate cell is held to arise from the prolongation of opposite points of the wall of a spherical cell. 1854 Woodward Mollusca ii. 283 The caudate species of Trigonia. |
b. Bot.
| 1830 in Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 1851 T. Moore Brit. Ferns (1864) 66 The very much attenuated apices of the fronds and their pinnæ, which are..what is called caudate. 1880 Gray Bot. Text-bk. 401 Caudate, furnished with..a slender tip or appendage resembling a tail. |