caudal appendage

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What would a monkey do without this caudal appendage and its prehensile quality?

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Then comes the caudal appendage, worth half a dollar.

From A History of the Town of Fairfax by Rust, Jeanne Johnson

He differentiates men into protoplasms, and integrates protoplasms into monkeys, and shows the caudal appendage to be the independent variable, a small factor in man, a large factor in monkey.

From Mr. Isaacs by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

She is also provided with a caudal appendage that ends in a patent fly-brush.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man One simious line in unbroken extendage; Development only since first it began— And chiefly in losing the caudal appendage.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn