Noun: caudate
| Singular | caudate |
| Plural | caudates |
Sample Sentences
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Some caudates show caudal autotomy, in that part or all of the tail can be shed and subsequently regenerated. [1992, Martin E. Feder, Warren W. Burggren, Environmental Physiology of the Amphibians, page 291:]
Nouns inflected like caudate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin caudātus, from Classical Latin cauda (“tail”) + -ātus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). See: Latin Nouns '
cauda'.