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Definition of Tailed
1. Adjective. Having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination.
Definition of Tailed
1. a. Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Definition of Tailed
1. Verb. (past of tail) ¹
2. Adjective. (''in combination'') having the specified form of tail ¹
3. Adjective. Having a tail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tailed
1. tail [v] - See also: tail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailed
Literary usage of Tailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A swallow-tailed animal, (a) Any swallow- tailed butterfly of the restricted family
... swallow- tailed butterfly, a swallowtail, as Papilio machaon, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"Ammodramus caudacutus diversus, subsp. nov. SOUTHERN SHARP-tailed SPARROW.
Tift- — Adult female. No. 5661, Coll. of LB Bishop, ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"THE FORKED-tailed FLYCATCHER. ... I regret that I am unable to afford any
information respecting their habits. FORK-tailed FLYCATCHER ..."
4. The Review of Education (1902)
"Hairy-tailed Mole. 256 Cineraria. 257 A Feather Changing from Green to Yellow.
... 291 Red-tailed Hawk. 296 European Squirrel. 297 Virginia Rail. ..."
5. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1852)
"SPINE-tailed SWALLOW. AUSTRALIAN SPINE-tailed SWALLOW. NEEDLE-tailed SWALLOW.
PIN-tailed SWALLOW. NEW HOLLAND SWALLOW. ..."
6. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"Birds (Feather, tailed, Fan-tailed, Bush-tailed). NOT one of the natural groups
of organisms — which we have designated as tribes, or phyla, on account of ..."
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