double-tailed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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While these models successfully describe simple, comet-like gas tails, they struggle to recreate the double-tailed structure observed around WASP-121b.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 20, 2026
Spermatid with divided spindle-substance and the corresponding double-tailed form. 154-155.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Stevens, Nettie Maria
Little Patou, like a double-tailed serpent rearing himself upright on his tail tips, appeared at first a creature remote, of some antediluvian race--until he talked a familiar, disarming patter with his human, disarming grin.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
"All ye saints!" roared Vendel, leaping up on his bed; "preserve me in spirits of wine like the four-legged hen, or the double-tailed lizard!"
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Jókai, Mór
It stood stone still, and for the moment Tim could not decide which end of it was head and which was tail, or even whether it were not double-tailed and headless.
From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)
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