oxtail

1. 1.

   the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups

   Broadertail

Other forms of oxtail

plural

oxtails·

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.

Questions about oxtail

What does oxtail mean?

oxtail means "the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups".

How many syllables are in oxtail?

oxtail has 2 syllables and divides as ox-tail under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.