Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two tails.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Double-tailed; terminating in two tails or prolonged extremities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having, or terminating in, two tails.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having
two tails .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I published a paper on bicaudal, but I did not easily find a job.
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I did a detailed study of bicaudal, the most difficult mutant I ever studied, with unbelievable patience and in retrospect little reward.
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Gehring at a meeting in 1973 in Freiburg, and had the courage to ask him about bicaudal, and whether he would let me work in his laboratory in Basel.
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The only interesting maternal mutant known at that time was bicaudal, which had been discovered by Alice Bull, and described in 1966.
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Using these techniques, I recovered and investigated the original bicaudal mutant.
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I presented this and the bicaudal work at the annual symposium of the American Society of Developmental Biology in
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Drosophila mutants, including bicaudal, in a review by Ted Wright (1971).
beautifulpyre commented on the word bicaudal
Two-tailed. Related: polycaudal.
April 30, 2009