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say it: KAH-duhl
caudal is an adjective and adverb meaning "constituting or relating to a tail". It carries 4 recorded senses.
situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises
“caudal fins”
“the caudal end of the body”
toward the posterior end of the body
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for caudal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.