tailed
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- adjective
- /teɪld/
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- A pair of shrill, long-tailed birds cut right above the sprinkler and disappeared from sight.
- curly-tailed
- tailed lizards
- short-tailed
And another one is a tendency for outliers or fat tailed distributions.
- And another one is a tendency for outliers or fat tailed distributions.
Examples
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The bright red-tailed hawk soared gracefully over the canyon, searching for prey.
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Short-tailed albatrosses attempt to grab fish bait on the wing but get hooked and eventually drown.
Academic text (2011) -
Among them, one of the largest white-tailed bucks either of them had ever seen.
Fiction book (2002) -
Loved that raggedy, stump-tailed dog too.
Fiction book (1992) -
Any long-tailed , brightly colored parrot.''
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Most people are familiar with the ring-tailed, ruffed, and brown lemurs, the ones usually seen in zoos and on nature shows.
Academic text (1993) -
White-tailed spiders can bite if they are trapped in clothing or squashed by a shoe.
Blog text (16) -
Long-tailed monkeys, real-life cousins of the one I bought in Beijing, pick their way across the walls of the gorge.
Fiction book (2001) -
Dippers, or water ouzels, are short-tailed, dark gray birds that live along stream edges year-round.
Academic text (1991) -
Long-tailed and pigtailed macaques could also be seen foraging on the ground and clambering through the trees.
Academic text (2008)
Idioms
Compounds
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A North American deer with a white underside to its tail that it raises when scared
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A small animal from Madagascar with a long tail that has black and white rings
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A small bat that flies fast, eats insects, and has a tail sticking out past the skin between its wings
- Australian
A small animal from Australia and New Guinea that lives in trees and has a pouch and a bushy tail
- Specialized
A rodent with a brush of stiff, bead-like hairs at the tip of its tail
A wild pigeon from western North America with a broad dark band on its tail
- Specialized
A cloth strip with four tails that you tie over the head to hold the jaw or chin
A small spiny animal with short quills and a long tail from Borneo and Sumatra
- Specialized
A small brown bird with a yellow-green tail that lives in western mountain areas
A fast desert lizard with a long black-banded tail that lives in the United States and Mexico
- Specialized
A small animal that lives underground with a short furry tail found in eastern North America
- Australian
A small kangaroo-like animal with a hard nail at the tip of its tail
An animal like a raccoon that has a long bushy tail with black and white rings
A small animal like a rat that lives in Florida wetlands and has a round tail
A small brown mammal from Malaysia with a bare tail and long stiff hairs at the tip
A formal men's jacket with a cut-away front and two long tails worn for evening events
A large North American hunting bird with black and white feathers and a deeply forked tail
- US
A small frog from western North America with a tail-like organ in males used to mate
A large land bird with pointed tail feathers found in western prairies and open forests
A grey and white bird that hunts small animals in warm parts of the Americas
A large brown bird with a short white tail that lives by the sea in Europe and Greenland
How Tailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tailed comes from the common word tail, meaning 'the part at the back of an animal', plus the ending -ed, which here means 'having'. So a 'long-tailed' or 'short-tailed' animal is simply one 'having' a long or short tail.