Word Finder - tail

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The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

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Most primates have a tail and fangs.

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An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

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The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

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The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

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The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

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The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

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The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

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The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

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The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.

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One who surreptitiously follows another.

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The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

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The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

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(chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.

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All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

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The buttocks or backside.

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The penis of a person or animal.

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Sexual intercourse.

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I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.

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(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.

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A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

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The distal tendon of a muscle.

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A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.

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A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

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A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.

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One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

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A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

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The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

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A tailing.

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The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

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A tailcoat.

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To follow and observe surreptitiously.

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Tail that car!

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To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

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To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

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This vessel tails downstream.

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To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

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To pull or draw by the tail.

Tail long, clothed with long hairs.

He would've turned tail and run.

It wasn't our turn to pin the tail on the donkey.

Fighting down a wave of nausea, she kneeled at the tail of the goat.

I caught one today, but he got away when his tail broke off.

The tail is very short.

In Pierre, however, that comet with its long luminous tail aroused no feeling of fear.

I can't make head or tail of it.

Tail generally long and well clothed with hair.

If you see Lori, tell her I said to get her tail back home where she belongs.

You be careful and keep in touch or I'll put a tail on you.

At the door she stopped and watched his truck go down the road – watched the tail lights get bright as he stopped on the main road, and then watched them fade down the highway.

Pulling her hair into a pony tail, she secured it with a blue ribbon.

Opisthosoma three minute and forming a slender generally-retracted tail like that of Thelyphonus.

Its appearance is sufficiently striking - the head and lower parts, except a pectoral band, white, the former adorned with an erectile crest, the upper parts dark grey banded with black, the wings dusky, and the tail barred; but the huge bill and powerful scutellated legs most of all impress the beholder.

The former bears two terminal suckers on the flattened dorsal and ventral surfaces, the latter six hooks near the tip of the tail.

Caryophyllaeus is an elongated, flattened worm provided with one extremely mobile extremity, the other being drawn out during the animal's sojourn in Tubifex into a short hexacanth tail.

The thicker portion develops a terminal muscular rostellum and two or four suckers, the thinner end (" tail ") is vesicular, more or less elongated, and contains the six embryonic hooks.

In most other cases the tail is not distinguishable, and the body of the larva is separable only into a scolex invaginated with a bladder (= hind-body and tail).

In some genera a " urocyst " is formed, the tail of which gives rise to a new cyst and a fresh scolex.

The majority of these are large and heavilybuilt ruminants, with horns present in both sexes, the muzzle broad, moist and naked, the nostrils lateral, no face-glands, and a large dewlap often developed in the males; while the tail is long and generally tufted, although in one instance longhaired throughout.

A very different animal is the Patagonian cavy, or mara (Dolichotis patachonica), the typical representative of a genus characterized by long limbs, comparatively large ears, and a short tail.

The Yemen pilgrim route, known as the Haj el Kabsi, led from Sada through Asir to Tail and Mecca, but it is no longer used.

The udad is distinguished by the abundant hair on the throat and fore-quarters of the rams, and the length of the tail.

The cercaria is just visible to the naked eye and has an oval or discoidal body and usually a long tail of variable form.

The tail may be a simple hollow muscular process or provided with stiff bristles set in transverse rows, or divided into two equally long processes, or finally it may form a large vesicular structure.

In this process it is aided by the stylet with which it actively bores its way, throws off its tail FIG.

The colour varies from earthy brown to blackish, and the greater part of the body is thinly covered with hair, and the ears and tail are fringed.

The head is short and conical, the ears large, round and mostly bare, and the tail shorter than the body.

A tadpole is the larva of a tailless Batrachian after the loss of the external gills and before the egress of the fore limbs (except in the aberrant Xenopus) and the resorption of the tail.

What characterizes a tadpole is the conjoined globular head and body, so formed that it is practically impossible to discern the limit between the two, sharply set off from the more or less elongate compressed tail which is the organ of propulsion.

Its opening, the vent, is situated either on the middle line at the base of the tail, or on the right side, as if to balance the sinistral position of the spiraculum.

The tail varies much in length and shape according to the species; sometimes it is rounded at the end, sometimes more or less acutely pointed, or even terminating in a filament.

Sometimes the ventral portions of these pads form paired or un paired little ossifications, then generally described as intercentra; such are not uncommon on the tail.

This, when fully developed, consists of two parts, but inserted by a single ribbon-like tendon upon the hinder surface of the femur, near the end of its first third; the caudal part, femoro-caudalis, expressed by Garrod by the symbol A, arises from transverse processes of the tail; the iliac part (accessorofemoro-caudal of Garrod, with the symbol B), arises mostly from the outer surface of the postacetabular ilium.

The lymph vessels of the tail and hinder parts of the body enter the hypogastric veins; and at the point of junction, on either side, lies a small lymph heart, which often persists until maturity.

On this theory the yellowbird or NorthAmerican "goldfinch," C. tristis, would seem, with its immediate allies, to rank among the highest forms of the group, and the pinegoldfinch, C. pinus, of the same country, to be one of the lowest the cock of the former being generally of a bright yellow hue, with black crown, tail and wings - the last conspicuously barred with white, while neither hens nor young exhibit any striations.

They breathe by piercing the surface film with the tail, where a pair of spiracles are situated.

These segments are very mobile, and as the rove-beetles run along they often curl the abdomen upwards and forwards like the tail of a scorpion.

The extreme length of the limbs and the absence of a tail are other features of these small apes, which are thoroughly arboreal in their habits, and make the woods resound with their unearthly cries at night.

The reference to "tail" is either to the expression "turn tail" in flight, or to the habit of animals dropping the tail between the legs when frightened; in heraldry, a lion in this position is a "lion coward."

The highest point of elaboration in colour, pattern and form is shown by the great eye-painted tail feathers.

Fuchs; the ultimate origin is unknown, but a connexion has been suggested with Sanskrit puccha, tail.

Foxes are likewise distinguished by their slighter build, longer and bushy tail, which always exceeds half the length of the head and body, sharper muzzle, and relatively longer body and shorter limbs.

The lower parts, inner surface of the limbs, throat, chin and upper lip are dirty white; the outside of the ears, particularly at their base, and a patch on each side of the muzzle black; the end of the tail dusky.

The young are, when first born, spotted with dusky brown and the tail ringed.

From both the latter it is distinguished by its rudimentary tail, measuring only a couple of inches in length, whence its name of Indris brevicaudatus.

The Peruvian chinchilla (C, brevicaudata) is larger, with relatively shorter ears and tail; while still larger species constitute the genus Lagidium, ranging from the Andes to Patagonia, and distinguished by having four in place of five front-toes, more pointed ears, and a somewhat differently formed skull.

The muzzle is narrow and hairy; and when faceglands are present these are small and insignificant; while the tail is short and flattened.

The tail is short or rudimentary, the incisors are short, and the outer surface of the lower jaw is marked by a distinct ridge.