rattail

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 răt′-tāl′

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
    — In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion.
  2. A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
  3. A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
    — All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift").
  4. A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.
  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. slang
  6. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
  7. The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.

词形变化

rattails plural rat-tail alternative

词汇关系

上位词
tail
衍生词
giant rattail rattail cactus rattail crassula rattail radish
相关词
mullet

词源

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