squirrel tail

Arboreal rodent's appendage

A squirrel tail is the bushy, fur-covered tail of a squirrel, often used decoratively in fly-fishing lures or as trim.

The term also names several grasses with bristly seed heads resembling the animal's tail: The squirrel tail grass waved in the breeze.

In hairstyling, a squirrel tail is a small, wispy ponytail.

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twitching · chestnut · gray · red · tree · tree branch · climbing · balance · scampering · flicking · plume · brush · curled · feathery · chattering · oak · branch · foraging

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tail morphology

squirrel tailrat tail

Narrow trailing braid

bobbed tail · pig tail · docked tail · nub · lizard tail

tail presence/absence

squirrel tailtailless

Having no rear appendage

stump

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