"rattail" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹæt.teɪl/ Forms: rattails [plural]
enPR: ˈrăt-ˌtāl Etymology: rat + tail Etymology templates: {{compound|en|rat|tail}} rat + tail Head templates: {{en-noun}} rattail (plural rattails)
  1. Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish. Categories (topical): Hair Categories (lifeform): Gadiforms Synonyms: grenadier, macrourid, whiptail Translations (fish): queue de rat [feminine] (French), grenadier [masculine] (French), Rattenschwanz [masculine] (German), Grenadierfische [feminine] (German), cola de rata [feminine] (Spanish), granadero [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-rattail-en-noun-HvDWCoCI Disambiguation of Hair: 61 39 Disambiguation of Gadiforms: 88 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'fish': 100 0
  2. A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head. Translations (hair): rattenstaart [masculine] (Dutch), queue-de-rat [feminine] (French), Rattenschwanz [masculine] (German), codino [masculine] (Italian), mysi ogonek (Polish), cola de rata [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-rattail-en-noun-50sCdyhr Disambiguation of 'hair': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: tail (english: structural) Derived forms: rattail cactus, rattail crassula, rattail radish

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      "sense": "fish",
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      "word": "queue de rat"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "granadero"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hair",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Rattenschwanz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hair",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "codino"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hair",
      "word": "mysi ogonek"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "cola de rata"
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