Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In herpetology, the tailed or urodele batrachians: same as
Urodela: opposed to Ecaudata or Anura.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) See
urodela .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun salamanders; newts; congo snakes
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Examples
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Fig. 123 represents a flower of _Aristolochia caudata_ with two lips, for which I am indebted to Mr.W. H. Baxter.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It consisted of a round ball of dry grass with a circular entrance on one side, near the top, was placed on the ground in the centre of a low scrubby bush in a grass Bheerh, and when the hen-bird flew off, which was not until I almost put my foot on the nest, I mistook her for _Argya caudata_.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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The eggs are about the size of the eggs of _A. caudata_, but in colour very like those of _Franklinia buchanani_, namely, white, speckled all over with reddish brown and pale lavender, most densely at the large end.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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This bird is so similar in appearance, when flying and hopping about in the long grass, to _A. caudata_, that I have no doubt it is often mistaken for that species.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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The eggs closely resemble those of _A. caudata_ both in colour and shape, but they are conspicuously larger.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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An accomplished marauder (Caelioxys caudata, SPIN.), a parasite of the
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The wormwood (Artemisia) of which there is a species (A. caudata) growing in Florida and northward, is said to be rich in potash.
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This resembles the figure of the Guaperva maxima caudata in Willughby's Ichthyol.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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Fo - liola suhopposita rhomhoidea acuminata, in apicemlanreolntum pinnatifidum desinentia sub - caudata bipuinatifida, superne simpliciter pin - nata.
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T. caudata, pedibus digitatis, tella gibba: fcutcllis llnea - tis fulco circumfciipti».
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