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tail noun

  /teɪl/
  • (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  • One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
cua
  • An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
cua, natja
  • (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  • A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
  • (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
natja

tails noun

  /teɪlz/
  • The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
creu

tailed adjective

  /teɪld/
  • (often, in combination) Having a tail.
cua

tailings noun

  • (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
brossa
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