caudal

1. 1.

   toward the posterior end of the body

   Synonymscaudally

Other forms of caudal

comparative

caudaller·

superlative

caudallest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about caudal

What does caudal mean?

caudal means "constituting or relating to a tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caudal?

caudal has 2 syllables: cau-dal. The stress falls on "cau". In IPA it is /ˈkɑdəl/.

What is another word for caudal?

Close synonyms include taillike, caudally. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of caudal?

The recorded antonyms are cephalic.

Is caudal a common word?

caudal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with caudal?

2 words rhyme with caudal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.