Subcaudal

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  • adj. On the underside of the tail.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Situated under the tail; placed on the under side of the tail: as, subcaudal chevron-bones; the subcaudal scutes, or urosteges, of a snake.
  • Not quite caudal or terminal; situated near the tail or tail-end; subterminal.
  • n. That which is subcaudal; specifically, in herpetology, a urostege; one of the special scutes upon the under side of the tail of a serpent.
  • Word Usage
    "This high-principled lophobranch is so careful of its callow and helpless young that it carries about the unhatched eggs with him under his own tail, in what scientific ichthyologists pleasantly describe as a subcaudal pouch or cutaneous receptacle."
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