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fat-tailed

fat-tailed adjective: having a fat tail; leptokurtic.

Adjective

fat-tailed (comparative more fat-tailed, superlative most fat-tailed)

  1. Having a fat tail; leptokurtic.

Forms of fat-tailed

comparativemore fat-tailed
superlativemost fat-tailed

Origin of fat-tailed

From fat + tailed.

Phrases with fat-tailed

Questions about fat-tailed

What does fat-tailed mean?
Fat-tailed means having a fat tail; leptokurtic.
What part of speech is fat-tailed?
Fat-tailed is an adjective.

Words near fat-tailed in the dictionary

  1. fat-shamers
  2. fat-shames
  3. fat-shaming
  4. fat-soluble
  5. fat-tail
  6. fat-tailed
  7. fat-tailed dunnart
  8. fat-tailed dunnarts
  9. fat-tailed dwarf lemur
  10. fat-tailed dwarf lemurs
  11. fat-tailed lemur

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