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filetail

filetail adjective: applied to various kinds of fish characterized by tails with toothlike grooves.

Adjective

filetail (not comparable)

  1. Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by tails with toothlike grooves.

Origin of filetail

From file + tail.

Words formed from filetail

  • filetail fanskate
  • filetail catshark
  • filetail shark

Questions about filetail

What does filetail mean?
Filetail means applied to various kinds of fish characterized by tails with toothlike grooves.
What part of speech is filetail?
Filetail is an adjective.

Words near filetail in the dictionary

  1. filesystem
  2. filesystems
  3. filet
  4. filet mignon
  5. filet mignons
  6. filetail
  7. fileteado
  8. fileted
  9. fileting
  10. filets
  11. filets mignons

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