tailless
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- adjective
- /ˈteɪl.ləs/
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- I saw a tailless dog running in the park, and its unusual appearance caught my eye.
- tailless cats
- tailless monkeys
Examples
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As part of his graduate research at the University of Nevada, Reno, Erik Beever studied pikas, small, tailless rabbit relatives that weigh about 150 grams and look a bit like hamsters.
Academic text (2004) -
On the peninsula of Reers nearby, you can find tailless cats, and at the inn, you can eat eel.
Fiction book (1995) -
In another few minutes, they reached the spot where the tailless monkey had been.
Fiction book (1994) -
As they followed it, they found themselves facing a tailless monkey.
Fiction book (1994) -
The tailless monkey looked up with no show of fear or even interest.
Fiction book (1994) -
Why should they bother the tailless monkeys?
Fiction book (1994) -
Two more tailless monkeys were in a tree almost directly overhead.
Fiction book (1994) -
The tailless monkeys seem to be at an evolutionary dead end.
Fiction book (1994) -
I hope you are right, for the tailless monkeys frighten me.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Now," he announced, "we will go down into the gorge and capture one of the tailless monkeys."
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
Having no tail or tail-like part
Not having a tail or tail-like part
An animal, often a frog, that has no tail
Antonyms
Compounds
How Tailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tailless is made from tail and the ending -less, which means 'without' and is the same ending you see in careless. So tailless means 'without a tail', like a Manx cat or a lizard that has lost its tail.