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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

longtail

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables
long-tail
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.

noun

Phaethon lepturus, the white-tailed tropicbird.

noun

A young, unattached female tourist.

noun

A longtail boat.

noun

A rat.

Colloquial

noun

A pheasant.

Slang

noun

A greyhound.

Slang

Etymology

From long + tail.

Usage

Inflected Forms

longtails (plural)

Phrases

cricket longtail cut and longtail green longtail longtail boat longtail butterfly ray longtail carpet shark longtail cast-on longtail catfish

Questions

What does longtail mean?
Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
Where does longtail come from?
From long + tail.

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