whiptailn.
/ˈhwɪpteɪl/ Name used (simply or attributive) for any one of various animals having a long slender tail like a whiplash: see quots.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a whip-tail
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > long flowing tail
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1771 J. R. Forster Flora Amer. Septentrionalis To Rdr. p. vii Whiptail forked Fistularia tabaccaria [tobacco-pipe fish].
1887 W. S. S. Tyrwhitt New Chum in Queensland Bush 145 Kangaroos..of..different kinds,..the smaller kind, known as pretty faces or whip tails.
1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 748/1 The genus Thelyphonus (Whip-tail, Nigger Killer, Mule Killer..) [= whip-scorpion].
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Tasmanian Whiptail,..Coryphænoides tasmaniæ,..an altogether different fish from Myliobatis aquila, the Eagle or Whiptail Ray [= whip-ray].
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