Rumpless

Word RUMPLESS
Character 8
Hyphenation rump less
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In three rumpless fowls the caudal vertebræ were few in number, and anchylosed together into a misformed mass. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

The rumpless fowl has no tail, and in a bird which I kept alive the oil-gland had aborted; but this bird, though the os coccygis was extremely imperfect, had a vestige of a tail with two rather long feathers in the position of the outer caudals. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

The skull of a crested, rumpless, white Turkish fowl is very slightly protuberant, and but little perforated; the ascending branches of the premaxillary {265} are well developed. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

It was the lanky, rumpless guy she'd seen before when she was there. ❋ Sue Bowden (2010)

Such sports are known in some cases to have been parents of some of our domestic races; and such probably have been the parents of many other races, especially of those which in some senses may be called hereditary monsters; for instance where there is an additional limb, or where all the limbs are stunted (as in the Ancon sheep), or where a part is wanting, as in rumpless fowls and tailless dogs or cats {190}. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

This bird came from a family where, as I was told, the breed had kept true for twenty years; but rumpless fowls often produce chickens with tails. [ ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

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