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tailed

adj · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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/teɪld/
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rhymes with -eɪld
CMU ARPABET: T EY1 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

adj

Meaning 1

Having a tail.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds, not-comparable, often

Examples

There are several tailed species of mammals.
This is a species of long-tailed mouse.
A one-tailed hypothesis will make predictions in one particular direction.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adj

Meaning 2

Of certain butterflies, having one or more filamentous projections on the tornal section of each hind wing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

verb

Meaning 3

simple past and past participle of tail

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English tayled; equivalent to tail + -ed.

Across languages

Translations

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Belarusian: хваста́ты (xvastáty) — having a tail
Bulgarian: опаша́т (opášat) — having a tail
Finnish: hännällinen — having a tail
Finnish: pyrstöllinen — having a tail
French: caudate — having a tail
German: Schwanz- — having a tail
Hungarian: farkú — having a tail
Hungarian: farkas — having a tail
Hungarian: farkos — having a tail
Ingrian: hännäkäs — having a tail
Irish: -eireaballach — having a tail
Irish: -earrach — having a tail
Irish: earr- — having a tail
Komi-Zyrian: бӧжа (böža) — having a tail
Latin: caudātus — having a tail
Manx: arbyllagh — having a tail
Polish: ogoniasty — having a tail
Russian: хвоста́тый (xvostátyj) — having a tail
Spanish: que tiene cola — having a tail
Swedish: -stjärtad — having a tail
Turkish: kuyruklu — having a tail
Ottoman Turkish: قویروقلو (kuyruklu) — having a tail
Udmurt: быжо (byžo) — having a tail
Ukrainian: хвоста́тий (xvostátyj) — having a tail

Word forms

Inflections and variants

No separate word forms were provided.

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: tailedness, untailed, boattailed, brush-tailed, bushy-tailed, culvertailed, daggle-tailed, draggle-tailed, fan-tailed, fantailed, fast-tailed, fat-tailed, heavy-tailed, high-tailed, long-tailed, lyre-tailed, multitailed, pig-tailed, pin-tailed, pintailed, pony-tailed, ring-tailed, scissors-tailed, sharptailed, spot-tailed, swallow-tailed, swallowtailed, whip-tailed, African long-tailed shrike, ball-tailed cat, band-tailed antshrike, band-tailed manakin, bar-tailed godwit, black-tailed deer, black-tailed flycatcher, black-tailed godwit, black-tailed hawfinch, black-tailed jackrabbit, black-tailed nativehen, black-tailed trainbearer, black-tailed wallaby, Brazilian free-tailed bat, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brown-tailed rock chat, brush-tailed mouse, brush-tailed penguin, brush-tailed phascogale, brush-tailed porcupine, brush-tailed possum, buff-tailed bumblebee, burnt-tailed barb, chestnut-tailed starling, crest-tailed mulgara, Elliot's short-tailed shrew, fan-tailed warbler, fat-tailed dunnart, fat-tailed dwarf lemur, fat-tailed lemur, fat-tailed sheep, feather-tailed glider, feather-tailed possum, fiery-tailed awlbill, fork-tailed bush katydid, fork-tailed flycatcher, free-tailed bat, gray short-tailed opossum, great-tailed grackle, green-tailed towhee, green-tailed trainbearer, grey-tailed tattler, hairy-tailed mole, Harlan's red-tailed hawk, large-tailed antshrike, leaf-tailed gecko, lion-tailed macaque, lobster-tailed pot, long-tailed blue, long-tailed chinchilla, long-tailed duck, long-tailed field mouse, long-tailed hawk, long-tailed jaeger, long-tailed macaque, long-tailed meadowlark, long-tailed one, long-tailed pangolin, long-tailed paradise whydah, long-tailed parakeet, long-tailed parroquet, long-tailed planigale, long-tailed shrew, long-tailed shrike, long-tailed skipper, long-tailed tit, long-tailed titmouse, Major's long-tailed tenrec, Mexican free-tailed bat, mosaic-tailed rat, nail-tailed wallaby, needle-tailed swift, nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, paddle-tailed newt, pen-tailed treeshrew, pheasant-tailed jacana, pig-tailed langur, pig-tailed macaque, pin-tailed sandgrouse, pin-tailed snipe, rat-tailed maggot, rat-tailed pit viper, red-tailed black cockatoo, red-tailed black shark, red-tailed hawk, red-tailed phascogale, red tailed shark, red-tailed shrike, red-tailed squirrel, red-tailed tropicbird, ribbon-tailed astrapia, ring-tailed cat, ring-tailed civet cat, ring-tailed coati, ring-tailed glider, ring-tailed lemur, ring-tailed macauco, ring-tailed possum, round-tailed muskrat, ruddy-tailed flycatcher, rufous-tailed hawk, rufous-tailed hummingbird, rufous-tailed rock thrush, rufous-tailed scrub robin, scaly-tailed possum, scissor-tailed flycatcher, Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat, sharp-tailed grouse, sharp-tailed sandpiper, sharp-tailed sparrow, sharp-tailed streamcreeper, sheath-tailed bat, sheath-tailed mouse, short-tailed blue, short-tailed chinchilla, short-tailed fox, short-tailed hawk, short-tailed parrot, short-tailed weasel, southern pig-tailed macaque, spider-tailed horned viper, spine-tailed swift, spiny-tailed lizard, spotted-tailed quoll, stiff-tailed duck, stub-tailed morpho, stump-tailed macaque, swallow-tailed kite, tailed Cupid, tailed frog, tailed pepper, thick-tailed bushbaby, trumpet-tailed rat, two-tailed pasha, wedge-tailed eagle, white-tailed blue flycatcher, white-tailed deer, white-tailed eagle, white-tailed hawk, white-tailed jackrabbit, white-tailed lapwing, white-tailed plover, white-tailed ptarmigan, white-tailed sea eagle, white-tailed shrike, yellow-tailed black cockatoo, zebra-tailed lizard, zone-tailed hawk

Related: caudate, caudated

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