Sentence examples for caudal from inspiring English sources

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caudal

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

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By his mid-20s, a clutch of albums culminating in "Fuente y caudal" ("Source and flow", 1973) had given notice of a guitarist of astonishing technique compellingly percussive but note-perfect and with anote-perfect and melody.

Pectoral fins are broad and the caudal fin furcate (forked).

The ventral fins are abdominal; the caudal fin is truncate.

Ventral fins and a pointed caudal fin are large in proportion to the body size.

In most families, locomotion is by means of the caudal, or tail, fin.

The well-developed tail (caudal fin) connotes a powerful swimming ability.

In inarticulate larvae the pedicle, a stalklike organ, develops from a so-called mantle fold along the valve margin; in articulates it develops from the caudal, or hind, region.

Slow swimming is accomplished by undulating movements of dorsal and anal fins, whereas rapid swimming occurs by undulating the body and caudal fin.

Juvenile snakes, which have yellow tails, were able to use caudal luring (tail wagging) to attract salamanders and small frogs.

In fish, taste buds occur on the lips, the flanks, and the caudal (tail) fins of some species and on the barbels of catfish.

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The affinities of this order remain problematic as the ossification pattern of the braincase and the caudal-fin skeleton do not closely resemble those of other holosteans or halecostomes (a group that gave rise to the teleosts).

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