Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a tail with ringlike markings.
- adjective Having a tail that curls to form a ring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the tail ringed with alternating colors, as a mammal; having an annulated tail: as, the ring-tailed cat, the bassaris; the ring-tailed lemur, Lemur catta. See cuts under
bassaris and racoon. - Having the tail-feathers cross-barred with different colors, as a bird: as, the ring-tailed eagle, the golden eagle, Aquila chrysaëtos, in immature plumage (see cut under
eagle ); the ring-tailed marlin, the Hudsonian godwit, Limosa hæmastica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the cacomixle.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a young golden eagle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a
tail marked with differentlycolored rings - adjective carrying its flexible tail in a circular or
spiraling form
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her father and her mother were the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat.
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The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat.
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The fault is with the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat.
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There are ring-tailed lemurs that waft their tails around to speak a complex “language” of multiple scents to communicate aggression, receptiveness to mating, and much more.
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The coyote is very wise, the moon is very old; but who ever heard much of anything of credit to the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat?
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Wong Maye-E/Associated Press A ring-tailed lemur rested on a tree branch at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on March 26.
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Wong Maye-E/Associated Press A ring-tailed lemur rested on a tree branch at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on March 26.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Wong Maye-E/Associated Press A ring-tailed lemur rested on a tree branch at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on March 26.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Wong Maye-E/Associated Press A ring-tailed lemur rested on a tree branch at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on March 26.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Wong Maye-E/Associated Press A ring-tailed lemur rested on a tree branch at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on March 26.
Asia in Photos 2010
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