Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the feathers of the tail arranged in the shape of a tuft, brush, or bush: applied to the Ratitæ, as ostriches, cassowaries, etc., as distinguished from ordinary fan-tailed birds. See cut under
cassowary .
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Examples
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The books and rugs and curtains were stowed in boxes and bundles and hung by wires to the ridge log to keep them from the busy bush-tailed rats.
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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This unconcern, together with the musky smell of the bush-tailed red stranger, at last so aggravated the bull that he charged furiously again and again.
The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves! '
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The bush-tailed Travoltas were snapped strutting their stuff on the branches of woods deep in the ancient forests of Poland.
HomePage - The Sun 2010
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The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves! "
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves! "
The Jungle Book. 1893
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