Fantail

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  fantail goldfish \fan"tail` gold"fish\, n. (Zool.)
     a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively
     short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat
     like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface
     of a cone. Called also {fantail}.
     [PJC]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fantail \Fan"tail`\ (f[a^]n"t[=a]l`), n. (Zool.)
     (a) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the
         shape of the tail.
     (b) Any bird of the Australian genus {Rhipidura}, in which
         the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight.
         They belong to the family of flycatchers.
     (c) the {fantail goldfish}.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fantail
       n : an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck
           extending aft of the sternpost of a ship

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "fantail":
     brush, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, counter, cue, dock,
     heel, pigtail, poop, queue, rattail, rudderpost, stern, stub, tail,
     tail end, tailpiece