Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

caudiform

Arabic translation:

الشبيهة بالذيل

Added to glossary by Zahraa Omar
Feb 17, 2013 09:25
11 yrs ago
English term

caudiform

English to Arabic Other History
The use of the caudiform appendage is found among numerous primitive peoples,1 and probably in Egypt and Libya had its origin in a desire to imitate the aspect of totem animals, or from an archaism which preserved the memory of the time when hunting-men wore the skins of animals taken in the chase.

Discussion

Ahmed Badawy Feb 17, 2013:
Is is a typo and the intended word is "Caudiciforms"?

Proposed translations

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الشبيهة بالذيل

Caudiform appendage
الملحفات الشبيهة بالذيول
أو
الملحقات والإضافات الذيلية
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ذيل

caudiform decoration is found among a considerable number of
nations.' In Eg\-pt, during the Pharaonic
age, the tail is an ornament of princes
and priests, and the Marseilles Museum
actuall}- possesses a specimen in wood.-
The representations of tails on the objects
found at Hierakonpolis form exactly
the transition between the tails of the
primitive period of the Louvre palette,
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