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SQUARE-TAILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does square-tailed mean? 

SQUARE-TAILED (adjective)
  The adjective SQUARE-TAILED has 1 sense:

1. having a square tailplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SQUARE-TAILED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a square tail

Similar:

caudate; caudated (having a tail or taillike appendage)


 Context examples 


Silver had two guns slung about him—one before and one behind—besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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