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acaudate (adjective) (not comparable)
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.