Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the tail more or less yellow: specific in many phrase-names of animals.
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Examples
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I can look out my window and see perhaps a dozen different kinds of parrot; yesterday twenty yellow-tailed black cockatoos flew over, making their deliciously mournful cries.
A Conversation with Nicholas Drayson about his novel, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa 2010
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The sixth endemic genus is one of the most important mammalain flagship species for the Tropical Andes, the yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda, CR), which was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1974.
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You ` re going to wreck the habitat of the yellow-tailed swallow.
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There are several notable mammal species, such as endemic yellow-tailed wooly monkey Lagothrix flavicauda (CR), a species previously believed to be extinct by 1926.
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On hearing Bob Latchford's throaty screech "Chickenhawks, Chickenhawks," one might have thought one was in the presence of a Great Tit or possibly a yellow-tailed Tit.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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Squinting, Khisanth saw thousands of the yellow-tailed glowbugs that often hovered near the nyphids at night.
The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993
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As for the birds themselves, drere are many kinds represented: big black hawks; black and white eagles; white hawks; big blue hawks; yellow-tailed, bald eagles.
Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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There was an ecstatic glint in his eye which meant that he had discovered a long-billed, yellow-tailed Peruvian fly-catcher, "very rare in these parts."
Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey
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Dwarfed by 80m Eucalyptus obliqua, disarmed by the cathedral silence of an enveloping rainforest (punctured every now and then by a squawking yellow-tailed black cockatoo), we are sealed off from the outside world and open to this one.
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Mahi-mahi swim about the bow, yellow-tailed and iridescent, and schools of flying fish move ahead of us, breaking out of the water in waves.
unknown title 2009
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