Spine-tailed

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• Spine

  ·noun A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn. II. Spine ·noun One of the rigid and undivided ...

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• Tailed

  ·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; — chiefly used in composition; as, bob...

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• Spine-finned

  ·adj Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; — said of certain fishes. ...

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• spine-bill

  n. an Australian «Honey-eater,» but not now so classed. There are two species – – The Slender Spine...

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• Crop-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail cropped. ...

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• Dag-tailed

  ·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. ...

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• Daggle-tailed

  ·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed. ...

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• Draggle-tailed

  ·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. ...

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• Fan-tailed

  ·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. ...

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• Fork-tailed

  ·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; — said of many bir...

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• Pin-tailed

  ·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; — said of birds. ...

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• Racket-tailed

  ·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. ...

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• Rat-tailed

  ·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. ...

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• Red-tailed

  ·adj Having a red tail. ...

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• Ring-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...

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• Ruby-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. ...

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• Scissors-tailed

  ·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....

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• Stiff-tailed

  ·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. ...

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• Stump-tailed

  ·adj Having a short, thick tail. ...

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• Swallow-tailed

  ·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed. II. Swallow-tailed ·adj Having a tail like that of a swallo...

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• Wedge-tailed

  ·adj Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedl...

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• Wire-tailed

  ·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...

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• culver-tailed

  Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder....

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• nail-tailed wallaby

  n. See onychogale. ...

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• stump-tailed lizard

  n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...

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