TAILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tailed mean? 

• TAILED (adjective)
  The adjective TAILED has 1 sense:

1. having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: TAILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination

Similar:

caudate; caudated (having a tail or taillike appendage)

 Context examples 

That’s the Duke of Norfolk—the stout man in blue upon the swish-tailed mare.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Temperate tailed phagae; does not integrate into host chromosome; prophage resembles plasmid and replicates autonomously at low numbers.

(Bacteriophage P1, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

"That generation of singled-tailed bots used cardiac tissue that beats on its own, but they could not sense the environment nor make any decisions."

(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)

‘Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never tell them apart.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tailed phage, isolated from E. coli.

(Bacteriophage T4, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The single-tailed probability distribution of any random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed.

(Log Normal Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

"Genital odors of ring-tailed lemurs provide honest information about an individual's absolute and relative MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) quality," write the researchers in a paper.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

Most striking among the new species are the dolphin Inia araguaiaensis, found in the River Araguaia basin, and the new primate species, the fire-tailed titi-monkey Plecturocebus miltoni.

(Report unveils 381 new plant and animal species in Amazon, Agência Brasil)

Any member of four genera of the rodent family Cricetidae; short-tailed Old World burrowing rodents with large cheek pouches.

(Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)