Crop-tailed
(a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Daggle-tailed
(a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth |
Dag-tailed
(a.) Daggle-tailed |
Draggle-tailed
(a.) Untidy |
Fan-tailed
(a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail |
Finch
(n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae. |
Fork-tailed
(a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones |
Naples yellow
() See under Yellow. |
Pin-tailed
(a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest |
Racket-tailed
(a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
Rat-tailed
(a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
Red-tailed
(a.) Having a red tail. |
Ring-tailed
(a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
Ruby-tailed
(a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
Scissors-tailed
(a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
Spine-tailed
(a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Stiff-tailed
(a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
Stripe
(n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground |
Stripe
(n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. |
Stripe
(n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color |
Stripe
(n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark. |
Stripe
(n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like. |
Stripe
(n.) Color indicating a party or faction |
Stripe
(n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer. |
Stripe
(v. t.) To make stripes upon |
Stripe
(v. t.) To strike |
Stump-tailed
(a.) Having a short, thick tail. |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) United by dovetailing |
Tailed
(a.) Having a tail |
Vida finch
() The whidah bird. |
Wedge-tailed
(a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate |
Whydah finch
() The whidah bird. |
Wire-tailed
(a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
Yellow
(superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color |
Yellow
(n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white |
Yellow
(n.) A yellow pigment. |
Yellow
(v. t.) To make yellow |
Yellow
(v. i.) To become yellow or yellower. |
Yellow-covered
(a.) Covered or bound in yellow paper. |
Yellow-eyed
(a.) Having yellow eyes. |
Yellow-golds
(n.) A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. |
| onion yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
| potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
| yellow-green algae | any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
| finch | any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
pine siskin
pine finch
Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
purple finch
Carpodacus purpureus | North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
vesper sparrow
grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
indigo bunting
indigo finch
indigo bird
Passerina cyanea | small deep blue North American bunting |
yellowhammer yellow bunting
Emberiza citrinella | European bunting the male being bright yellow |
yellow-breasted bunting
Emberiza aureola | common in Russia and Siberia |
green-tailed towhee
Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
weaver
weaverbird
weaver finch | finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests |
Java sparrow
Java finch
ricebird Padda oryzivora | small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields |
| grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
zebra finch
Poephila castanotis | small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's |
yellow warbler
golden warbler
yellowbird Dendroica petechia | yellow-throated American wood warbler |
yellow-breasted chat
Icteria virens | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds |
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 |
slider
yellow-bellied terrapin
Pseudemys scripta | freshwater turtle of United States and South America, frequently raised commercially, some young sold as pets |
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 |
yellow-shafted flicker
Colaptes auratus
yellowhammer | large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail |
yellow-bellied sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius | eastern North American sapsucker having a pale yellow abdomen |
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 |
yellow-fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti | mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue |
yellow jacket
yellow hornet
Vespula maculifrons | small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground |
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 |
yellow-throated marten
Charronia flavigula | large yellow and black marten of southern China and Burma |
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 |