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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A long, thin length of hair that hangs down the nape of the neck, usually when the rest of the hair is cut short.
  • adjective Shaped like or having a part shaped like a rat's tail.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In farriery:
  • noun An excrescence on a horse's leg, growing from the pastern to the shank.
  • noun A disease which causes the hair of a horse's tail to fall off; also, a horse's tail thus denuded of hair. Also rat's-tail.
  • Same as rat-tailed.
  • noun A fish of the genus Macrurus, as M. fabricii or M. rupestris; the onion-fish or grenadier. See cut under Macrurus.
  • noun A horse which has a tail bare or nearly bared of hair.
  • noun One of various plants having tail-like flower-spikes, as the common plantain and the ribwort plantain, and various grasses, including species of Rottbœllia in the United States and Ischæmum laxum (Andropogon nervosus) in Australia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Far.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
  • noun The California chimæra. See Chimæra.
  • noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.
  • adjective Like a rat's tail in form. See Illust. of file.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun slang A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
  • noun An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
  • noun A fish, the California chimera, Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei.
  • noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus; a grenadier.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail

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