tailed

English

Etymology

From Middle English tayled; equivalent to tail +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teɪld/
• Rhymes: -eɪld

Verb

tailed

1. simple past tense and past participle of tail

Adjective

tailed (not comparable)

1. (often in combination) Having a tail.

   There are several tailed species of mammals.

   This is a species of long-tailed mouse.

2. (entomology) Of certain butterflies, having one or more filamentous projections on the tornal section of each hind wing.

Synonyms

• caudate

Derived terms

• untailed

 

Compound words

• boattailed
• bushy-tailed
• culvertailed
• daggle-tailed
• draggle-tailed
• fantailed
• fast-tailed
• fat-tailed
• heavy-tailed
• multitailed
• pintailed
• pin-tailed
• scissors-tailed
• sharptailed
• swallowtailed
• tailedness

Expressions

• bar-tailed godwit
• black-tailed godwit
• black-tailed jackrabbit
• black-tailed trainbearer
• bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
• brush-tailed penguin
• brushtail possum
• buff-tailed bumblebee
• Elliot's short-tailed shrew
• fat-tailed dwarf lemurs
• fiery-tailed awlbill
• gray short-tailed opossum
• great-tailed grackle
• green-tailed trainbearer
• grey-tailed tattler
• large-tailed antshrike
• leaf-tailed gecko
• long-tailed blue
• long-tailed macaque
• long-tailed shrike
• long-tailed tit
• nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• pen-tailed treeshrew
• pheasant-tailed jacana
• rat-tailed maggot
• red-tailed hawk
• red-tailed shrike
• red-tailed tropicbird
• ring-tailed lemur
• ring-tailed macauco
• rufous-tailed hawk
• rufous-tailed rock thrush
• sharp-tailed sandpiper
• short-tailed fox
• short-tailed hawk
• short-tailed parrot
• short-tailed weasel
• spiny-tailed lizard
• stiff-tailed duck
• stub-tailed morpho
• tailed frog
• tailed pepper
• thick-tailed bushbaby
• wedge-tailed eagle
• white-tailed eagle
• white-tailed hawk
• white-tailed lapwing
• white-tailed sea eagle
• yellow-tailed black cockatoo
• zebra-tailed lizard
• zone-tailed hawk

 

Translations

having a tail

• Belarusian: хваста́ты (xvastáty)
• Finnish: hännällinen, pyrstöllinen
• French: caudate (fr)
• German: Schwanz- (de)
• Hungarian: farkú, farkas (hu), farkos
• Irish: -eireaballach, -earrach (ga), earr-
• Latin: caudātus

• Manx: arbyllagh
• Polish: ogoniasty
• Russian: хвоста́тый (ru) (xvostátyj)
• Spanish: que tiene cola
• Ukrainian: хвоста́тий (xvostátyj)

Anagrams

• atelid, de-tail, detail, dietal, dilate, laited

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Middle English

Noun

tailed

1. Alternative form of tayled