Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a tail like a rat's; having a rat-tail, as a horse.
- Like a rat's tail in shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See
Eristalis . - adjective (Zoöl.) the fer-de-lance.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the musk shrew.
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Examples
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The thousands of housefly larvae and rat-tailed maggots that result will be more than enough animal matter for the tilapia population.
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Leaning out over the wooden railing of the balcony, Asmador is startled at first to see a grotesquely naked, hunchbacked, rat-tailed demon capering on the raised bridge of the trawler, cupping its misshapen genitals in one hand and gesturing lewdly toward the oblivious crewmen with the other.
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Leaning out over the wooden railing of the balcony, Asmador is startled at first to see a grotesquely naked, hunchbacked, rat-tailed demon capering on the raised bridge of the trawler, cupping its misshapen genitals in one hand and gesturing lewdly toward the oblivious crewmen with the other.
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Leaning out over the wooden railing of the balcony, Asmador is startled at first to see a grotesquely naked, hunchbacked, rat-tailed demon capering on the raised bridge of the trawler, cupping its misshapen genitals in one hand and gesturing lewdly toward the oblivious crewmen with the other.
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Leaning out over the wooden railing of the balcony, Asmador is startled at first to see a grotesquely naked, hunchbacked, rat-tailed demon capering on the raised bridge of the trawler, cupping its misshapen genitals in one hand and gesturing lewdly toward the oblivious crewmen with the other.
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The thousands of housefly larvae and rat-tailed maggots that result will be more than enough animal matter for the tilapia population.
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The larvae are aquatic, often called “rat-tailed maggots,” and live in putrified liquids, like rain water in animal carcasses.
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The thousands of housefly larvae and rat-tailed maggots that result will be more than enough animal matter for the tilapia population.
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The thousands of housefly larvae and rat-tailed maggots that result will be more than enough animal matter for the tilapia population.
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His dead white skin hosted a raging case of psoriasis and his oily dishwater-brown hair was long enough for its rat-tailed ends to twitch at my face and throat like barbs.
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