"pseudotail" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pseudo- + tail",
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          "ref": "2002, Jay M. Savage, The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica, page 115",
          "text": "A number of species, however, have a pseudotail consisting of a few postcloacal vertebrae, but annulation is incomplete and a terminal shield is consistently present.",
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          "ref": "2012, Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology",
          "text": "The spermatozoon of Saduria entomon is long and bent, resembling a whip. It consists of a very long pseudotail (1.86 mm long), which lacks an axoneme, and an extended head (112 pm long) that hangs down at an acute angle,” scientists in Poznan, Poland report.",
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          "ref": "2014, Lawrence F. Eichenfield, Ilona J. Frieden, Andrea Zaenglein, Neonatal and Infant Dermatology",
          "text": "A true human tail (persistent vestigial tail) is rare and is differentiated from a pseudotail and an acrochordon by the presence of a central core of mature fatty tissue, small blood vessels, bundles of muscle fibers, and nerve fibers.",
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        "An appendage that is similar to a tail in location and gross appearance but which lacks some of the features of a true tail."
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          "word": "pseudo-tail"
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  "word": "pseudotail"
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  "etymology_text": "pseudo- + tail",
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          "text": "The spermatozoon of Saduria entomon is long and bent, resembling a whip. It consists of a very long pseudotail (1.86 mm long), which lacks an axoneme, and an extended head (112 pm long) that hangs down at an acute angle,” scientists in Poznan, Poland report.",
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  "word": "pseudotail"
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