long tail

  • 111Tail stock — Stock Stock (st[o^]k), n. [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. {Stokker}, {Stucco}, and {Tuck} a rapier.] 1. The stem …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 112Long-tongued Fruit Bat — Taxobox | name = Long tongued fruit bat status = LR/lc | status system = IUCN2.3 image width = 225px image caption = regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Mammalia ordo = Chiroptera familia = Macroglossinae genus =… …

    Wikipedia

  • 113Long-snouted pipefish — Taxobox name = Long snouted pipefish image caption = regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Syngnathiformes familia = Syngnathidae genus = Stigmatopora species = S. macropterygia binomial = Stigmatopora macropterygia… …

    Wikipedia

  • 114tail gland — a group of long, thick mucus cells at the tip of the tail of Heterocongridae which cements the sand of the walls of their burrows they fashion using their tails …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 115tail — [OE] Tail comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taglaz, whose other modern descendants include German zagel ‘penis’ and Swedish tagel ‘horsehair’. This in turn went back to an Indo European *doklos, which had the general meaning ‘something long and… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 116tail, estate in — An estate of inheritance, which, instead of descending to heirs generally, goes to the heirs of the donee s body, which means his lawful issue, his children, and through them to his grandchildren in a direct line, so long as his posterity endures …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 117tail — [OE] Tail comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taglaz, whose other modern descendants include German zagel ‘penis’ and Swedish tagel ‘horsehair’. This in turn went back to an Indo European *doklos, which had the general meaning ‘something long and… …

    Word origins

  • 118long-tailed tit — noun a small songbird with largely black, pink, and white plumage and a long, slender tail. [Aegithalos caudatus and other species, family Aegithalidae.] …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 119long-billed black-cockatoo — /ˌlɒŋ bɪld blæk kɒkəˈtu/ (say .long bild blak kokuh tooh) noun a large black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, with yellow or white patches on the head and white panels in the tail; found in the extreme south west of WA. Also, Baudin s black… …

  • 120long-tailed dunnart — /lɒŋ teɪld ˈdʌnat/ (say long tayld dunaht) noun a rare dunnart, Sminthopsis longicaudata, with a tail longer than its body; found in the Gibson Desert and in the Young Range of WA …