long-tailed

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  1. Having a long tail; hence, long-drawn; attenuated. Monsieur Perrault … has endeavoured to turn into Ridicule several of Homer's Similitudes, which he calls “Comparaisons à longue queue,” Long-tail'd Comparisons. Addison, Spectator, No. 303.
  2. In entomology, having a long-exserted ovipositor, as many ichneumons; having a long terebra or borer. Westwood.
  3. Japanese long-tailed fowls. See Japanese.
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  • The tiny long-tailed tit is so small - the tail is longer than the body - that it is very vulnerable to cold weather. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • However, the recent run of mild winters (with the exception of 2009) has produced a population boom, and in this year's Big Garden Birdwatch, run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the long-tailed tit was the 10th commonest bird seen in gardens across the country - almost double the previous number. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • This was a week before Siberian weather conditions hit Britain - and may also have hit long-tailed tits, to an extent which is not yet known. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • An average of 1.34 long-tailed tits were seen per garden, compared with —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • All the other birds in the top 10 - blue tit, chaffinch, woodpigeon, collared dove, great tit, robin and long-tailed tit - were slightly up in numbers. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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