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double-tailed

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[duhb-uhl-teyld] / 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

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)

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

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

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

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