caudal appendage
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What would a monkey do without this caudal appendage and its prehensile quality?
Fromentel described a fresh-water form of this genus with a caudal appendage.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
All the members of this tribe bear the caudal appendage, and, as Oriental imagination is given to exaggeration, I was assured that the tails sometimes attained the length of two feet.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
No sooner does he reach the years of discretion than he assumes a magnificent caudal appendage.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar
Stand still, with a nip like crocodile's grip On one's caudal appendage?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various