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Definition of "yellow-tailed" []

  • Having the tail more or less yellow: specific in many phrase-names of animals.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "yellow-tailed" in a sentence
  • "I can look out my window and see perhaps a dozen different kinds of parrot; yesterday twenty yellow-tailed black cockatoos flew over, making their deliciously mournful cries."
  • "The sixth endemic genus is one of the most important mammalain flagship species for the Tropical Andes, the yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda, CR), which was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1974."
  • "There are several notable mammal species, such as endemic yellow-tailed wooly monkey Lagothrix flavicauda (CR), a species previously believed to be extinct by 1926."