squirrel-tailed, a.
[f. squirrel n. Cf. prec.]
Having a tail resembling that of the squirrel in form or character.
| 1840 Hodgson Hist. Northumb. III. ii. 361/2 Leucodon sciuroides, Squirrel-tailed Leucodon. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports 236/1 The tail [of the dew-worm] tapers somewhat, but in the squirrel-tailed variety it is flattened. 1894–5 Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. III. 107 Of the European species the largest is the squirrel-tailed dormouse (Mus glis). |