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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a long, slender tail like a whip-lash: as, the whip-tail scorpion. See whip-scorpion.
Examples
“As might a cat, the wolverine must have met the shock of that whip-tail stroke relaxed enough to escape serious injury.”
“He waited for no second invitation, but lit out from Byng's arms like a streak -- a whip-tail, snow-white streak -- for where the Arab's hard lean legs shone shiny-brown below his fluttering brown raiment.”
“It is now thought that the animal described by Solander was not a kangaroo in the strict sense but a wallaby, specifically a Cape York form of whip-tail wallaby with the scientific name Wallabia canguro in recognition of the connection with Cook's expedition.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whip-tail’.
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The Porn Birds
It's the winter of 2039. Global warming and rapacious development is taking a serious toll on habitat for birds all around the world. In desperation, they turn to new careers in the feather-flick...
goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, wedgie, bonxie, baldpate and 95 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Old nickname for the Long-Tailed Skua. Dec 11, 2007