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Chat :: Chat (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat..

Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..

Battailant :: Battailant (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

Crissum :: Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts..

Hare''s-tail :: Hare's-tail (n.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton..

Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Heterocercy :: Heterocercy (n.) Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Tail :: Tail (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal..

Huckster :: Huckster (n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker..

Elaborative :: Elaborative (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

Stumpy :: Stump-tailed (a.) Having a short, thick tail..

Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..

Yellowtail :: Yellowtail (n.) The mademoiselle, or silver perch..

Entailed :: Entailed (imp. & p. p.) of Entai.

Caudal :: Caudal (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage..

Delineation :: Delineation (n.) The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively..

Caudated :: Caudated (a.) Having a tail; having a termination like a tail.

Redstart :: Redstart (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches..

Mare''s-tail :: Mare's-tail (n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls..

Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

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