In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion.
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Rattail
/ˈɹæt.teɪl/
Synonyms for "rattail" (22 found)
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More general
2 entriesgadoidgadoid fish
Translations
7 translations across 4 languages.
French
2 entries- grenadier noun (fish)
- queue de rat noun (fish)
German
2 entries- Grenadierfische noun (fish)
- Rattenschwanz noun (fish)
Russian
1 entries- макру́рус noun (fish)
Spanish
2 entries- cola de rata noun (fish)
- granadero noun (fish)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift").
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