Usage examples (5)

• As they came to the join where the tail-shaped wing of the building met the body, Miw-Sher pressed her finger against a stone in the wall and it opened.
• The secret, revealed by scanning electron microscope, lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.
• Eskimo's tail-shaped fur coats -- of men wrecked on the shores of Asia who might have qualified for Darwin's missing link, inasmuch as they wore "tails."
• Images of the aquatic mammals are all over, from tail-shaped sun screens to the costumed character greeting guests and posing for pictures near the park entrance.