tail-like
- a word derived from tail.
Example Sentences
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The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023
It grows eyes, hair and a tail-like appendage it uses to move around.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2023
“This is the only one that seems to have a little something,” Ms. Ferellec said, describing the object’s faint tail-like feature streaking away from the sun.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2022
During the takeoff, when the springtails smacked their tail-like furculae off the water, the collophores picked up a drop of water.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022
They may be regarded as “macrourous” Xiphosura; that is to say, Xiphosura in which the nomomeristic number of eighteen well-developed somites is present and the posterior ones form a long tail-like region of the body.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
