square-tailed

1. 1.

   having a square tail

   Similarcaudate

Questions about square-tailed

What does square-tailed mean?

square-tailed means "having a square tail".

How many syllables are in square-tailed?

square-tailed has 4 syllables and divides as squa-re--tai-led 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.

Is square-tailed a common word?

square-tailed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.