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UK
/ɹˈɪŋteɪl/
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NOUN
- an immature golden eagle
- monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl
- raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings
- North American raccoon
How To Use ringtail In A Sentence
- Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
- This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
- Springtails (Collembola) of Eurasian polar deserts. Arctic environments north of the treeline
- The cameras never detected some species that are believed to still exist in the area, such as black bears, long-tailed weasels, ringtails, badgers, and spotted skunks.
- Marri trees produce large amounts of blossom and nectar, and mature trees often have the very large hollows that are nesting sites for endangered species such as black cockatoos, western ringtail possums and owls.
- Homeward they sped in silence, with little to vary the monotonous pitapat of Lady Ringtail's hoofs in the shallow pools with which the storm had filled the level roads. The end of an era,
- Various crane flies, spiders, springtails and other species have life cycles of 3 to 5 years.
- The earliest described insects are flightless; they occur in Scottish Devonian rocks, and are similar to modern springtails.
- A glacier species of particular note is the glacier flea Isotoma saltans, a species of springtail. Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
- Scavenging crabs clean the bones, as do the smaller invertebrates such as the tiny springtails that live in the sand.
