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Rattail

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Noun

1. grenadier, rattail, rattail fish

deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Rattail

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adjective
1. 
shaped like a rat's tail; slim and tapering
: also ˈratˌtailed
noun
2. 
grenadier (sense 3)

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Rattail

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n.
1. See grenadier.
2. A long, thin length of hair that hangs down the nape of the neck, usually when the rest of the hair is cut short.
adj. also rat-tailed (-tāld) or rat·tailed (-tāld)
Shaped like or having a part shaped like a rat's tail: a rat-tail file; a rattail comb.

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