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" (26 found)
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13 translations across 7 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- rattenstaart noun (hair)
French
3 entries- grenadier noun (fish)
- queue de rat noun (fish)
- queue-de-rat noun (hair)
German
3 entries- Grenadierfische noun (fish)
- Rattenschwanz noun (fish)
- Rattenschwanz noun (hair)
Italian
1 entries- codino noun (hair)
Polish
1 entries- mysi ogonek noun (hair)
Russian
1 entries- макру́рус noun (fish)
Spanish
3 entries- cola de rata noun (fish)
- cola de rata noun (hair)
- granadero noun (fish)
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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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