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TAILLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tailless mean?
• TAILLESS (adjective)
The adjective TAILLESS has 1 sense:
1. not having a tail
Familiarity information: TAILLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having a tail
Synonyms:
anurous; tailless
Context example:
anurous toads and frogs
Similar:
Context examples
The animal is a crepuscular mammalian herbivore that is tailless with short legs and a large head.
(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
The Dunkin Hartley guinea pig is a crepuscular mammalian herbivore that is tailless with short legs and a large head.
(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
In each case, not only are the ‘e’s’ slurred and the ‘r’s’ tailless, but you will observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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