“fat- tailed”

The following 2 entries include the term fat- tailed.

fat-tailed sheep

noun

: a coarse-wooled mutton sheep that has great quantities of fat on each side of the tail bones

fat-tailed lemur

noun

: any of several Malagasy mouse lemurs (genus Cheirogaleus) with much-thickened tails sometimes regarded as constituting a separate genus (Atililemur or Opolemur)


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