Meaning

7 senses
  1. Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.

    deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail

  2. A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).

    Rattenschwanz, Grenadierfische

    макру́русmakrúrus

  3. A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.

    Rattenschwanz

  4. A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.

  5. (slang)A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.

  6. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

  7. The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.

Translations

6 languages
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Origin

From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblan

From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.

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Forms

plural: rattails

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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