cauda galli
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cauda gallī (“tail of a cock”).
Noun
[edit]cauda galli
- (archaic, paleontology) A feathery-shaped fossil, apparently a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks.
References
[edit]- “cauda galli”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.