单词 | tailless |
释义 | taillessadj. Having no tail; deprived of a tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > not having tailless15.. untailed1807 acaudate1835 acaudal1840 rumpy1845 ecaudate1849 15.. Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 88 Elsse our horse and mayres shal be All taylesse at the Cart. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 109 Tailless D[eer]. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 405 Tailless M[armot]. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. i. 13 He beheld Snarleyyow..tailless. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 189 The frog and other tail-less batrachians. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxvi. 289 Never did a fragile tailless sentence convey a more perfect meaning. 1887 Field 2 July 7/1 Tailless schipperkes. 1893 [see taillessness n. at Derivatives]. Derivatives ˈtaillessness n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > state of having no tail taillessness1892 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Feb. 3/1 Our universal taillessness. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 1/2 The little black Schipperkes, the tailless dogs of the Belgian bargees;..their taillessness was a fraud. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.15.. |
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