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- adjective
- /teɪld/
- A pair of shrill, long-tailed birds cut right above the sprinkler and disappeared from sight.
- curly-tailed
- tailed lizards
- short-tailed
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- 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.
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Among them, one of the largest white-tailed bucks either of them had ever seen.
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Loved that raggedy, stump-tailed dog too.
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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.
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White-tailed spiders can bite if they are trapped in clothing or squashed by a shoe.
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Long-tailed monkeys, real-life cousins of the one I bought in Beijing, pick their way across the walls of the gorge.
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Dippers, or water ouzels, are short-tailed, dark gray birds that live along stream edges year-round.
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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
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A small frog from western North America with a tail-like organ in males used to mate
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A small wild animal with a long black-tipped tail that eats mice and rats
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A large land bird with pointed tail feathers found in western prairies and open forests
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A formal men's jacket with a cut-away front and two long tails worn for evening events
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A wild pigeon from western North America with a broad dark band on its tail
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A grey and white bird that hunts small animals in warm parts of the Americas
- Specialized
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A small brown bird with a yellow-green tail that lives in western mountain areas
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A large brown bird with a short white tail that lives by the sea in Europe and Greenland
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An animal like a raccoon that has a long bushy tail with black and white rings
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A small North American animal with a tail less than half its body length
- 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
- 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
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
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 large North American hunting bird with black and white feathers and a deeply forked tail
How Tailed
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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.