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square-tailed, a.
[square a. 13.]
Having a square tail: a. Of animals, birds, etc.
1781Pennant Hist. Quadrup. II. 482 Square-tailed Shrew of a dusky cinereous color. 1819Pantologia s.v. Sorex, The white footed, square tailed, carinated, and unicolor shrews. 1827Griffith tr. Cuvier V. 102 Sorex Tetragonurus (Square-tailed Shrew). 1891Science-Gossip XXVII. 80/1 The Square-tailed Worm... Among our native worms there is one with a square tail (Allurus tetraedrus, Eisen). 1895Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. IV. 54 The square-tailed bee-eaters (Melittophagus) are all of small size.
b. Of a coat.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. vii. ii, Young Valour in square⁓tailed coat eyes Beauty in Greek sandals. |