🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

de cauda longa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dʒi ˈkawdɐ ˈlõɡɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Long-tailed/ˈlɔːŋ.teɪlnd/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O pássaro de cauda longa voou para longe."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having a long tail.

    "The long-tailed bird fluttered gracefully between the branches of the eucalyptus tree."
  2. 2

    Relating to statistical distributions with a large number of occurrences far from the head or central mean.

    "The company capitalized on a long-tailed market strategy focusing on niche products."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English, combining 'long' from Old English lang and 'tail' from Old English tæġel, alongside the participial suffix '-ed'. Historically used in zoology and botany to describe animals or plants possessing an unusually extended caudal appendage.

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