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10 Language-to-English Dictionaries細尾の
Pronunciation / Transliteration: hosoo no
"細尾の動物はバランスを取るのが得意です。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Having a narrow, slender, or thin tail, typically used in zoological or anatomical descriptions of animals.
"The thin-tailed macaque is native to the dense canopy forests of Southeast Asia." - 2
In statistics and probability, describing a distribution whose tails taper off exponentially or faster than exponentially.
"A normal distribution is thin-tailed compared to a Cauchy distribution, making extreme outliers exceedingly rare."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Compound formation combining the English adjective 'thin' (from Old English 'þynne') and the adjective 'tailed' (derived from 'tail', from Old English 'tægel'). Established in biological and statistical contexts during the 19th and 20th centuries to describe physical traits or probability distributions with slender extremities.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Thin-tailed" is said worldwide
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à queue fine
Transliteration: a kœ fin
"Cette espèce est caractérisée par un profil à queue fine."
dünnschwänzig
Transliteration: dynn-shvantsig
"Die dünnschwänzige Schafrasse ist gut an das trockenes Klima angepasst."
coda sottile
Transliteration: koda sotːiːle
Script: a coda sottile
"I mammiferi a coda sottile vivono spesso sugli alberi."
de cola fina
Transliteration: de kola fina
"El roedor de cola fina habita en zonas montañosas."
de cauda fina
Transliteration: de kawda fina
"A espécie de cauda fina foi descoberta recentemente."
पतली पूंछ वाला
Transliteration: patli poonch wala
"यह पतली पूंछ वाला जानवर मुख्य रूप से रात में बाहर निकलता है।"
细尾的
Transliteration: xì wěi de
"正态分布通常被认为是一种细尾的分布。"
가는 꼬리의
Transliteration: ganeun kkoriui
"이 포유류는 가는 꼬리의 특징을 가지고 있다."
細尾の
Transliteration: hosoo no
"細尾の動物はバランスを取るのが得意です。"
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