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White tail   /waɪt teɪl/   Listen
White tail

noun
1.
Common North American deer; tail has a white underside.  Synonyms: Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, whitetail, whitetail deer.






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"White tail" Quotes from Famous Books



... long as you sit tight and do your hair like that, nobody could take you for anything but a dear little bunny with its ears laid back. But if you get palpitations in your little nose, and turn up your little white tail at people, and scuttle away when they look at you, you can't blame them if they wonder what's the ...
— The Immortal Moment - The Story of Kitty Tailleur • May Sinclair

... Snimmy's wife, with undisguised contempt. "I said he was the only child we have. We have him, haven't we?" And with that she sat down with her back to Sara on her own toadstool, and curled her long white tail around the base with quite unnecessary tightness. Her nose was not quite so debilitating as the Snimmy's; still, it nearly stuck into the doorknob ...
— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker

... don't think he had, he was quietly dressed in his brown fur suit, with a white tail ...
— Fairy Tales from the German Forests • Margaret Arndt

... passing another farm-house presently and another unfriendly dog. The greyness in the east became tinged with rose. Birds sang and fluttered. A rabbit hopped nimbly across the road ahead of them and disappeared, with a taunting flick of his little white tail, in the bushes. Further on a chipmunk chattered at them from the top of the wall and then, with long leaps, raced ahead to stop and eye them inquiringly, finally disappearing with a last squeal of alarm. A second ...
— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour

... appearing to shake hands with his late adversary. No doubt if he had had a tail he would have wagged it, but Brown had been born with a large, perfectly round, black spot, at the root of his tail, and his then owner, having an eye for the picturesque, had removed his white tail entirely, even to its last joint, to allow of no break in the spot; and when the spirit moved Brown to wag a tail, a violent stirring of hairs in the centre of this spot betrayed his desire to the world. ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn



Words linked to "White tail" :   genus Odocoileus, deer, cervid, Odocoileus



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