tailless
Lacking rear extension
Tailless describes something that lacks a tail, whether naturally or through removal.
Some animals are tailless by design—certain cat breeds, some primates, frogs in their adult form.
Others become so through docking or injury: a tailless dog.
The word applies to anything that might have a tail but doesn't: a tailless kite, tailless aircraft.
Trunk base after felling
- stubRetained portion after detachment
- bobtailTruncated animal tail
- dockMooring structure at water's edge
- rumpRear body portion
hindquarters · caudal · truncated · shortened · clipped · docked · bobbed · sacral
Tailless domestic cat breed
- Isle of ManBritish crown dependency, Irish Sea
- stumpyShort and thickset
- riserStair's vertical portion
- breedCultivated variety of animal
Tailless leaping amphibian
- toadWarty terrestrial amphibian
- tadpoleImmature aquatic amphibian
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- amphibianDual-habitat cold-blooded vertebrate
bullfrog · tree frog · salamander · newt · herpetology · pond · spawn
Permanent DNA alteration
- geneHereditary information unit
- alleleGene variant at one locus
- hereditaryPassed through generations
- recessiveMasked unless paired identically
dominant · phenotype · genotype · chromosome · trait · inheritance · variation · selective breeding
Reduced, without current function
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- primateHigher mammal order member
ape · hominid · gibbon · gorilla · chimpanzee · orangutan · bipedalism · phylogeny
stump
Trunk base after felling
- stubRetained portion after detachment
- bobtailTruncated animal tail
- dockMooring structure at water's edge
rump · hindquarters · caudal · truncated · shortened · clipped · docked · bobbed · sacral · posterior
Manx
Tailless domestic cat breed
- Isle of ManBritish crown dependency, Irish Sea
- stumpyShort and thickset
- riserStair's vertical portion
frog
Tailless leaping amphibian
- toadWarty terrestrial amphibian
- tadpoleImmature aquatic amphibian
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
amphibian · bullfrog · tree frog · salamander · newt · herpetology · pond · spawn
mutation
Permanent DNA alteration
- geneHereditary information unit
- alleleGene variant at one locus
- hereditaryPassed through generations
recessive · dominant · phenotype · genotype · chromosome · trait · inheritance · variation · selective breeding · congenital
vestigial
Reduced, without current function
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- ancestryFamily line of descent
primate · ape · hominid · gibbon · gorilla · chimpanzee · orangutan · bipedalism · phylogeny · species
absence
State of not being
without · devoid · wanting · removed · amputated · severed · detached · lost · gone
- tails
- aircraftairplane, airliner, airplanes, plane, biplane
- cat traitssilky coat, coat, tabby pattern, claws, long-haired
- primate traitsopposable thumbs, grasping hands, prehensile, binocular vision, arboreal
- missing partsmissing limb, missing finger, missing toe, missing hand, limbless
- animal geneticsallele, chromosome, dominant gene, recessive gene, dominant traits