caudation

noun5

1. •
   The property of having a caudate extension or tail.

   • Its distinguishing features, such as alation, hingement, posterior caudation, etc., are also found in other subfamilies of Cytheridae. — 1955
2. •
   A caudate extension or tail.

   • Thin; most leaves incurved-acuminate into a straight caudation; radicals various, large and long, broad and small, regular or lop-sided, their teeth big and remotish or very remote. — 1906
3. •
   A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.

   • To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized. — 1978
4. •
   The addition of a caudation.

   • But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation. — 1956
5. •
   A fibrous growth.

   • The caudation or fibrous tendency and the regularity of arrangement is greater than in cancer. — 1864