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adj. - Having a part of the vertebrate body posterior to the portion containing the body cavity

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Usage examples (35)
  • Adjective : a ring-tailed monkey
  • But everyone was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, which is always a good sign.
  • I will tell you that it dragged in the middle and, for me, really kind of tailed off at the end.
  • The poem, in Italian, is an extended or "tailed" sonnet, with a coda of six lines appended to the standard 14.
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