short-tailed
Lacking tail length
Short-tailed describes an animal with a tail shorter than typical for its kind or for related species.
The term appears most often in common names of birds and mammals: short-tailed shrew, short-tailed hawk, short-tailed albatross.
It distinguishes species from longer-tailed relatives.
Short and thick
- bobbedCropped or nodded
- dockedFastened at harbor
- truncatedCut off abruptly
- compactTightly packed together
stumpy · abbreviated · cropped · curtailed · squat · blunt · rudimentary · vestigial
Ill-tempered woman, or insectivore
- weaselSmall elongated predator
- batFlying mammal or sports club
- opossumAmerican pouch-bearing mammal
- albatrossLong-winged oceanic bird
chinchilla · parrot · shearwater · vole · possum · cricket · mongoose · fruit bat
stubby
Short and thick
compact · stumpy · abbreviated · cropped · curtailed · squat · blunt · rudimentary · vestigial · diminutive
shrew
Ill-tempered woman, or insectivore
albatross · chinchilla · parrot · shearwater · vole · possum · cricket · mongoose · fruit bat · rodent
mutation
Permanent DNA alteration
hereditary · breeding · Manx · bobtail · dominant · recessive · phenotype · genotype · inherited · congenital
hawk
Taloned predatory bird
- shearwaterTube-nosed pelagic bird
- albatrossLong-winged oceanic bird
- petrelTube-nosed ocean bird
grouse · parrot · finch · stint · plumage · wingspan · seabird · raptor · migratory · nesting
short-tailedlong-tailed
Having extended posterior appendage
brush-tailed · longtailed · bushy-tailed · plumed · tailless
short, tail, tailed, shorter, shortest, shorten, shortened, shortening, shortly