Tail

Quick meaning: Tail is a noun meaning (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

Meaning

(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

More Meanings

1. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
2. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
3. The tail-end of any object.
4. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
5. (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
6. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
7. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.

Example Sentences

Most primates have a tail and fangs.

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]

A sequence (a#95;n) is said to be frequently 0 if every tail of the sequence contains 0.

Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.

Word Forms

• tails
• tailing
• tailed

Synonyms for tail

Depending on context, synonyms include descender, aphrodisia, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include posterior, rump, tush, keister, butt, arse.

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