Lacking a tail or tail-like appendage; having the tail removed or absent.
From de- (without) + caudatus (tailed, from Latin cauda meaning tail). Biological and anatomical terminology describing tailless organisms or specimens.
Decaudate creatures include humans and apes—we actually have tail bones (coccyxes) that prove our ancestors had tails before evolution made them vestigial and invisible.
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