rattail

Signification (Anglais)

1. Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
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.
4. A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.
5. (slang) 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.
6. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

Concepts

grenadier

Macrouridae

macrouridé

macrouridae

queue de rat

Synonymes

grenadier

rattail fish

Traductions

راتيل - نوع من الأسماك

سمك الغرناد

Rattenschwanz

Grenadierfische

pesci topo

rattenstaarten

Macrouridae

macrouridae

cola de rata

granaderos

sıçan kuyruğu gibi

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɹæt.teɪl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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