Usually means: Birds with broad, fanned tails.
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  1. fantails: Merriam-Webster
  2. fantails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fantails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fantails, fantails: Wordnik
  5. fantails: Wiktionary
  6. fantails: Dictionary.com
  7. fantails: FreeDictionary.org
  8. fantails: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fantails: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fantails: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fantail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fantail)

noun:  Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
noun:  Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
noun:  Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
noun:  (nautical) An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
noun:  A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
noun:  A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.
▸ Also see fantail


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