long-tailed

See also: longtailed

English

Alternative forms

• longtailed

Adjective

long-tailed (comparative more long-tailed, superlative most long-tailed)

1. Having a long tail (used in the names of various birds and animals).
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 226:

     […] lastly, in regal pomp, Lady Wentworth’s state coach was seen, with six black and long-tailed horses, and two outriders; […]

Derived terms

• long-tailed blue
• long-tailed chinchilla
• long-tailed duck
• long-tailed jaeger
• long-tailed macaque
• long-tailed meadowlark
• long-tailed one
• long-tailed pangolin
• long-tailed shrike
• long-tailed tit
• long-tailed titmouse
• nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat

 

Translations

having a long tail

• Greek:

  Ancient: μακρόουρος (makróouros)

• Manx: arbylagh
• Spanish: colilargo

Anagrams

• goldentail