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Short-tailed   /ʃɔrt-teɪld/   Listen
Short-tailed

adjective
1.
Having a short tail.



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"Short-tailed" Quotes from Famous Books



... contains two species rather than four as was previously thought. Sorex emarginatus, S. ventralis, and S. oreopolus seem to me to be conspecific. All three nominal species are relatively small, short-tailed shrews. The skulls of the three kinds resemble one another in relatively short rostrum and in dental details. Slight differences in cranial proportions differentiate the three and they should, until more specimens of each are obtained and studied, retain subspecific rank. The specific name, Sorex ...
— Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews • James S Findley



Words linked to "Short-tailed" :   caudate, caudated, short-tailed shrew



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