branching
ramification
fork
forking | the act of branching out or dividing into branches |
green-tailed towhee
Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
kingbird
Tyrannus tyrannus | large American flycatcher |
Arkansas kingbird
western kingbird | a kingbird seen in western United States, head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black |
Cassin's kingbird
Tyrannus vociferans | a kingbird seen in the southwestern United States, largely grey with a yellow abdomen |
| eastern kingbird | a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America, distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail |
grey kingbird
gray kingbird
petchary
Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis | a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America, similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird |
redtail red-tailed hawk
Buteo jamaicensis | dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
white-tailed kite
Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
zebra-tailed lizard
gridiron-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
sharp-tailed grouse
sprigtail
sprig tail
Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
pin-tailed sandgrouse
pin-tailed grouse
Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
nail-tailed wallaby
nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
slender-tailed meerkat
Suricata suricatta | a meerkat with a thin and elongated tail |
freetail
free-tailed bat
freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
white-tailed jackrabbit
whitetail jackrabbit
Lepus townsendi | largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States, brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter, tail nearly always all white |
round-tailed muskrat
Florida water rat
Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
long-tailed porcupine
Trichys lipura | porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail |
Virginia deer
white tail
whitetail
white-tailed deer
whitetail deer
Odocoileus Virginianus | common North American deer, tail has a white underside |
black-tailed deer
blacktail deer
blacktail
Odocoileus hemionus columbianus | mule deer of western Rocky Mountains |
longtail weasel
long-tailed weasel
Mustela frenata | the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail |
pentail
pen-tail
pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
Madagascar cat
ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
a bassarisk
cacomistle
cacomixle
coon cat raccoon fox
ringtail ring-tailed cat
civet cat miner's cat
Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
| carving fork | a large fork used in carving cooked meat |
| fork | cutlery used for serving and eating food |
| fork | an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging, has a handle and metal prongs |
| four-tailed bandage | a bandage consisting of a strip of cloth split in two on both ends, the central part is placed under the chin to restrict motion of the mandible and the tails are tied over the top of the head |
| salad fork | a fork intended for eating salads |
swallow-tailed coat
swallowtail
morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
| toasting fork | long-handled fork for cooking or toasting frankfurters or bread etc. (especially over an open fire) |
| tuning fork | a metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck, used to tune musical instruments |
crotch
fork | the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk |
skeleton fork fern
Psilotum nudum | pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves, America, Japan, Australia |
fork
crotch | the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches, they took the south fork, he climbed into the crotch of a tree |
| fork | shape like a fork, She forked her fingers |
branch
ramify
fork
furcate
separate | divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork, The road forks |
| fork | place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces |
pitchfork
fork | lift with a pitchfork, pitchfork hay |
hand over
fork over
fork out
fork up
turn in
deliver render | to surrender someone or something to another, the guard delivered the criminal to the police, render up the prisoners, render the town to the enemy, fork over the money |
| naked-tailed | having a tail that is hairless |