释义 |
squirrel-tailed, a. [f. squirrel n. Cf. prec.] Having a tail resembling that of the squirrel in form or character.
1840Hodgson Hist. Northumb. III. ii. 361/2 Leucodon sciuroides, Squirrel-tailed Leucodon. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports 236/1 The tail [of the dew-worm] tapers somewhat, but in the squirrel-tailed variety it is flattened. 1894–5Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. III. 107 Of the European species the largest is the squirrel-tailed dormouse (Mus glis). |