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語源

From rat +‎ tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.

発音

• enPR: ˈrăt-ˌtāl, IPA: /ˈɹæt.teɪl/
• 韻: -æteɪl

名詞

rattail (plural rattails)

1. Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.

   Synonyms: grenadier, macrourid, whiptail

   • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎:

     In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion.

2. A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
3. A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
   • 2013 July 28, Elizabeth Day, The Observer:

     All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift").

4. A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.

   Synonym: rat-tail file

5. (slang) A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
6. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
7. The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.

上位語

• tail (structural)

派生語

参考

• (hairstyle): mullet

参照

Further reading

• rattail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Macrouridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Macrouridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

派生語

• See at rattail § Derived terms