Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a short stumpy tail; bobtailed; curtal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a short, thick tail.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a singular Australian scincoid lizard (
Trachydosaurus rugosus ) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called alsosleeping lizard .
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Examples
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And maybe tomorrow, you can bring back a stump-tailed macaque.
Louis Bayard: A Tiger Mom Shares Her Secrets Louis Bayard 2011
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And maybe tomorrow, you can bring back a stump-tailed macaque.
Louis Bayard: A Tiger Mom Shares Her Secrets Louis Bayard 2011
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The blacknecked crane Grus nigricollis (VU) is seen on migration. 86 animals are under state protection which in addition to the above include Chinese stump-tailed macaque Macaca thibetana, takin Budorcus taxicolor, bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus, Chinese hazel-grouse Tetrastes sewerzowi, pheasant grouse Tetraophasis obscurus, black stork Ciconia nigra, Pallas's sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus and golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos.
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All five macaque species occurring in Thailand are present, namely rhesus Macaca mulatta, crab-eating M. fascicularis, pig-tailed M. nemestrina, Assam M. assamensis and stump-tailed M. arctoides.
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These include plants such as Nothophoebe omeiensis and Rosa omeiensis, and Tibetan stump-tailed macaque Macaca tibetana, a species of monkey with shorter-tail and longer hair than its more widely distributed relative, the rhesus macaque.
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The lower forests in Nagaland harbor two of India's rare primates: the stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides) and the pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina).
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The stump-tailed voles trusted to the ludicrous cover of the broken ground.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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He saw his friend the shrewmouse scuffling with its mate; he saw the wood-mice nut-grubbing; he saw the night reunion of the stump-tailed voles; but the first of his own kind that he saw was mother.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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A big stump-tailed dog of the Malemute tribe at times followed at her heels, but when she had patted his head and spoken kindly to him he appeared satisfied, and lay down again with his head between his paws.
A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan
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In its center, where the ground was soft, and muddy, was a writhing, twisting, tangled mass of snakes of dozens of kinds, though the dirty, sickening-looking, stump-tailed moccasin predominated.
The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis
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