Definition of "fat-tailed" [fat-tailed]

• Having a fat tail; leptokurtic. (adjective)

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• "From the ambiguity of tea to the farmers 'long-horned cattle and fat-tailed sheep originally bred from indigenous stock, these household inventories actually reflect African elements of colonial life, though they are listed in terms that might otherwise be read as strictly European, like crockery and farm animals."
• "A few years ago, scientists working in Madagascar discovered that at least one primate species, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, hibernates."
• "Fattail or fat-tailed scorpion is the common name given to scorpions of the genus Androctonus, one of the most dangerous groups of scorpion species in the world."