| BLACKTAIL | • blacktail n. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua). • blacktail n. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon. • blacktail n. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains. |
| BROADTAIL | • broadtail n. The hide or fur of a Persian lamb, formerly used in clothing etc. • broadtail n. (Dated) Any of various kinds of parakeets in the genus Platycercus. • BROADTAIL n. a karakul sheep; fur prepared from the skin of very young karakul lambs. |
| BROWNTAIL | • BROWNTAIL adj. as in browntail moth, a brown and white European moth. |
| DISENTAIL | • disentail v. (Law) To free from entailment. • disentail n. (Law) The act of freeing from entailment. • DISENTAIL v. to free from entailment. |
| HARESTAIL | • harestail n. Lagurus ovatus, an annual grass. • hare's-tail n. A kind of sedge (Eriophorum vaginatum). • HARESTAIL n. a species of cotton grass. |
| HORSETAIL | • horsetail n. (Literally) The tail of a horse. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • horsetail n. (Botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores. • horsetail n. (Military) A Turkish standard denoting rank. |
| MOUSETAIL | • mousetail n. Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family. • mousetail n. Any plant of the genus Myosurus, in the buttercup family. • MOUSETAIL n. any of various temperate ranunculaceous plants of the genus Myosurus. |
| SCALETAIL | • scaletail n. Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially the flightless Zenkerella insignis. • SCALETAIL n. a type of squirrel. |
| SHARPTAIL | • sharptail n. The pintail duck. • sharptail n. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken. • SHARPTAIL n. a kind of grouse. |
| SHAVETAIL | • shavetail n. (US) An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer. • SHAVETAIL n. (US slang) a second lieutenant. |
| SHIRTTAIL | • shirttail n. The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the… • shirttail n. (By extension) The tail-end or periphery of something. • shirttail n. A tenuous connection. |
| SPRIGTAIL | • sprigtail n. (US, dialect) The pintail duck. • sprigtail n. (US, dialect) The sharp-tailed grouse. • SPRIGTAIL n. a species of duck. |
| SWINGTAIL | • swingtail n. A hinged tail section on an airplane that can open up, providing access to the interior of the fuselage. • SWINGTAIL adj. as in swingtail cargo aircraft, an aircraft with tail that swings aside to give access to the full cross-section of the fuselage for rapid loading and unloading of cargo. |
| SWORDTAIL | • swordtail n. One of many species of freshwater fish, in genus Xiphophorus, others of which are called platyfish. • swordtail n. Any of various papilionid butterflies that have a long sword-like projection from the tornal section of each hindwing. • SWORDTAIL n. a small Central American freshwater fish. |
| THORNTAIL | • thorntail n. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Discosura. • THORNTAIL n. a tropical American hummingbird with bright green plumage. |
| WHITETAIL | • whitetail n. A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America. • WHITETAIL n. the Virginia deer. |