English edit

Etymology edit

Latin, meaning "tail of a cock".

Noun edit

cauda galli

  1. (paleontology) A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cauda galli”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)