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acaudate (adjective)
1. Without, or lacking, a tail: "The acaudate bobcat was seen leaping from rock to rock in the mountains."
2. Characterized by the congenital absence of a tail in an individual of a species that normally has this appendage: "The birth of an acaudate foal was distressing because she would be unable to flick away the flies from her back end."
2. Characterized by the congenital absence of a tail in an individual of a species that normally has this appendage: "The birth of an acaudate foal was distressing because she would be unable to flick away the flies from her back end."