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Rat-tailed   Listen
adjective
Rat-tailed  adj.  (Zool.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
Rat-tailed larva (Zool.), the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See Eristalis.
Rat-tailed serpent (Zool.), the fer-de-lance.
Rat-tailed shrew (Zool.), the musk shrew.





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"Rat-tailed" Quotes from Famous Books



... This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-horse-shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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