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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
broadtail is a noun meaning "the fur of a very young karakul lamb". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the fur of a very young karakul lamb
hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for broadtail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.