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

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller (Steamship), a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming.…

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.)…

al Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

The tail or brush of a fox.

A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

See Jurel.

A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. Hare's-tail grass (Bot.), a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's tail.

Any one of family (Uroceridæ) of large hyminopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

See Entail, v. t.

us); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.

An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.

A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud. Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails. Old Rhyme.

A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.

which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.