caudal
/ˈkɔːdəl/
caudal adjective: pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
Adjective
caudal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
- The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, […]1871, Charles Darwin, “Principles of Sexual Selection”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 269
- Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3
- Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
Noun
caudal (plural caudals)
- A caudal vertebra.
caudal meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
caudal in Tamil
- பின் முனை, வாற்பாக்கம், வாலிய, வால் பக்கம், வால்முனை, வால் தொடர்பான
caudal in Kannada
- ಬಾಲದ, ಬಾಲದ ಬಳಿಯ
caudal in Tagalog
- pertaining to the tail
- buntutin, pamuntot
caudal in Arabic
- pertaining to the tail
- ذَنَبِيّ ḏanabiyy, ذَيْلِيّ ḏayliyy
More languagesFewer languages
- caudal in Persian
- دمی domi
Examples of caudal in a sentence
- The transverse process protrudes between the cranial and caudal openings of the foramen transversarium.
- Distitibia with 3 basal and 15 distal trichobothria; frontal and caudal series with 6 trichobothria each.
- The young warsaw has a yellow tail and a dark saddle on the caudal peduncle.
Antonyms of caudal
Forms of caudal
| plural | caudals |
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Origin of caudal
Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).
Words formed from caudal
- 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
Phrases with caudal
Words that rhyme with caudal
Questions about caudal
- What does caudal mean?
- Caudal means pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
- What is caudal in Tamil?
- Caudal in Tamil is பின் முனை, வாற்பாக்கம், வாலிய. See Caudal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is caudal?
- Caudal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce caudal?
- Caudal is pronounced /ˈkɔːdəl/.
Words near caudal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: caudal (page history and authors); caudal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); caudal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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