Usually means: Bird with broad, spreadable tail.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word fan-tailed:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. fan-tailed: Merriam-Webster
  2. fan-tailed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fan-tailed, fan-tailed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fan-tailed: Wordnik
  5. Fan-tailed, fan-tailed: Dictionary.com
  6. Fan-tailed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. fan-tailed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Fan-tailed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. fan-tailed: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Fan-tailed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. fan-tailed: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fan-tailed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Fan-tailed: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fan-tailed)

▸ adjective:  Of a bird, having a tail that is narrow at the base and fans out towards the tips.

Similar:
fantailed, graduated, scissors-tailed, swallowtailed, tailed, swallow-tailed, wing-footed, ring-tailed, winged, aliform, more...

Opposite:
unfanned, unbranched, straight-tailed

Phrases:
fan-tailed warbler, more...

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Similar:
fantailed, graduated, scissors-tailed, swallowtailed, tailed, swallow-tailed, wing-footed, ring-tailed, winged, aliform, more...

Opposite:
unfanned, unbranched, straight-tailed

Phrases:
fan-tailed warbler, more...



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