ring-tailed

[ ring-teyld ]

adjective

1. having the tail ringed with alternating colors, as a raccoon.
2. having a coiled tail.

ring-tailed

adjective

1. (of an animal) having a tail marked with rings of a distinctive colour

Word History and Origins

Origin of ring-tailed¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

I guess ol' Dan's the idee, if you can drive him; he's a ring-tailed snorter.

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I think Tom must have made a new record for himself in the running high jump when he broke away from his ring-tailed antagonist.

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This was the great country of the frogs—the milk-and-honey country to the ring-tailed family in the hollow gum.

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In this way we produce such admirable propositions as "A ring-tailed baboon is not a constitutional assembly."

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Then at the signal of the Ring Tailed Panther they rose to their feet, and stretched their cramped limbs.

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