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double-tailed

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[duhb-uhl-tayld] / ˈdʌb əlˈteɪld /

adjective

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


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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

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 William John Locke

Here is a list: A few buttons with double-tailed lions.

From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson

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

From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Nettie Maria Stevens

"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 Mór Jókai

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