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double-tailed

[duhb-uhl-teyld]

adjective

Heraldry.
  1. (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.



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Wearing a blue shirt that featured a large golden-tongued, double-tailed lion borrowed from the Czech coat of arms, Stepanek came back from a 4-2 deficit in the second set to eventually sweep through a tiebreaker and gain command of the match.

"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!"

Spermatid with divided spindle-substance and the corresponding double-tailed form. 154-155.

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.

One of the children was sent to London to be educated, but not liking so many double-tailed monsters, as he called the men, nor their manner of living, he crept down to the Thames, and in a few hours rejoined his parents.”

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