Definition of Ecaudate

1. a. Without a tail or spur.

Definition of Ecaudate

1. Adjective. (biology) Tailless; without a tail or tail-like appendage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ecaudate

1. having no tail [adj]

Medical Definition of Ecaudate

1. 1. Without a tail or spur. 2. Tailless. Origin: Pref. E- + caudate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecaudate

eburneous
eburnification
eburnifications
eburnine
eburnitis
ecad
ecads
ecandrewsite
ecard
ecardines
ecards
ecarte
ecartes
ecarteur
ecash
ecaudate (current term)
ecballium
ecbasis
ecbatic
ecboles
ecbolic
ecbolics
ecboline
eccaleobion
eccaleobions
ecce
ecce homo
ecce homos
eccenteric

Literary usage of Ecaudate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... or ban « Anthers ecaudate. 393. ARTEMISIA. L. Л'и«. Gen. 653. [Said to be named from Artemis ; the Diana of the Greeks.] Heads small, numerous, often ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"The ecaudate seeds are mostly about £ line long; on the average the seeds of J. ... The ecaudate seeds are generally oblique, ob- ovate or pear-shaped, ..."

3. Arenicola: The Lug-worm by James Hartley Ashworth (1904)
"The genus is divisible into a caudate and an ecaudate section. ... ventral lip ciliated, entire (ie, not deeply notched as in the ecaudate ..."

4. Spicilegium Neilgherrense, Or, a Selection of Neilgherry Plants: Drawn and by Robert Wight (1851)
"The anthers also afford sectional characters, according as they are prolonged downwards forming a kind of tail, caudate or ecaudate ; so also the receptacle ..."

5. Report on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries at the University of Liverpool, and by University of Liverpool, Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory, University of Liverpool Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory (1904)
"... The genus is divisible into a caudate and an ecaudate section. ... ventral lip ciliated, entire (ie, not deeply notched as in the ecaudate ..."

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