Tailed — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Meaning & Definition of Tailed

Tailed (noun)

1. the rear end or a process or prolongation of the rear end of the body of an animal
2. something resembling an animal's tail in shape or position
3. a luminous stream of particles, gases, or ions extending from a comet especially in the antisolar direction
4. entail
5. mule deer; especially, one of a subspecies (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) especially of British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington
6. a coarse-wooled mutton sheep that has great quantities of fat on each side of the tail bones
7. any of a family (Molossidae) of bats characterized by a tail that projects beyond the posterior part of the flight membrane and found in warm regions of the world
8. a common sea duck (Clangula hyemalis) of the more northern parts of the northern hemisphere of which the adult male is marked with sharply contrasted black and white and has the middle tail feathers very long and slender and the female is plainer and lacks the long tail feathers
9. crab-eating macaque
10. a common weasel (Neogale frenata) found from southern Canada to northern South America often near water that is an aggressive carnivore feeding chiefly on rodents and other small mammals, is brown above and white to yellowish below in summer and in its northern range usually white in winter, and ranges in length from 15 to 23 inches (38 to 58.4 centimeters) long including a black-tipped tail that is usually 3 ½ to 6 ½ (9 to 16.5 centimeters) inches long

Tailed (verb)

1. to follow for purposes of surveillance
2. to connect end to end
3. to remove the tail of (an animal), dock

Tailed (adjective)

1. being a statistical test for which the critical region consists of all values of the test statistic greater than a given value or less than a given value but not both