rattail.
Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
Meaning & usage
Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.
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.
An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.
Where this word comes from
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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