hairtail

Examples

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• Fishermen often catch the hairtail due to its unique shape and excellent swimming ability.

• Many marine biologists study the hairtail because it is closely related to other predatory fish species.

• Here, the hairtail is a sign of the orisa's friendship with Ifa, who had feigned illness to see who would come to his aid.

  Academic text (1999)

• How did the equation of Esu's hairtail with the phallus become axiomatic when there is no close resemblance at all times or even most of the time?

  Academic text (1999)

• Even the hairtail ending in a form reminiscent of a circumcised penis (Fig. 2) is not unique to Esu.

  Academic text (1999)

• The cultural power of these masks is clearly tied to their understood relation to biology, but more interpretive emphasis is put on the direction of the hairtails, indicating the dark realm in which these figures function.

  Academic text (1999)

• For example, Esu figures often come in male and female pairs where each has the so-called phallic hairtail to some extent, but the literature offers little understanding of these transgendered images.

  Academic text (1999)

• While Esu's long hairtail is considered the primary sexual symbol, representations of the deity sucking his thumb, blowing a whistle, or smoking a pipe have been interpreted in the same way.

  Academic text (1999)

• For instance, she suggests that male Esu figures worn or danced in pairs by male devotees have dramatically phallic hairtails, perhaps partly because they must extend over the dancer's shoulder.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

F

frost fish

vshairtail

• Australian

9.9

A long thin sea fish with no scales and sharp teeth that lives in deep water

is the same fish but used as an alternative common name

C

cutlassfish

vshairtail

9.9

A long thin sea fish with a shiny body and sharp teeth

is the same fish but simply another common name

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology