rattail

n. 没毛的马尾巴

发音

US /ˈɹæt.teɪl/

词形变化

rattails 复数 rattails

别名

rat-tail

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.

  2. 2.

    A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).

  3. 3.

    A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.

  4. 4.

    A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.

  5. 5.

    A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.

    俚语
  6. 6.

    An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

  7. 7.

    The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.

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词源

From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.

来源:wiktionary