The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ring-tailed \Ring"-tailed`\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
Ring-tailed cat (Zo["o]l.), the cacomixle.
Ring-tailed eagle (Zo["o]l.), a young golden eagle.
Wiktionary
a. 1 having a tail marked with differently colored rings 2 carrying its flexible tail in a circular or spiraling form
Usage examples of "ring-tailed".
I'm the biggest and the fightingest man on Bear Creek, which is famed far and wide for its ring-tailed scrappers, but this wildman shore give me my hands full.
Glanton is from Texas, original, and whilst he is a sentimental cuss in repose he's a ring-tailed whizzer with star-spangled wheels when his feelings is ruffled.
The only impartial observer at hand was Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon, who thought cricket the most tedious occupation known to man and who was now slowly climbing away from it through the forest that covered the island, with the intention first of killing a boar, or in default of a boar some of the much less popular ring-tailed apes, and then of reaching the north side where the bird's-nest-soup swallows nested.
It might seem the very height of levity to be playing cricket with the schooner far from finished, with stores very low and with the little island's resources in coconuts, boars and ring-tailed apes nearly exhausted.
The Doctor says there are barely a score of pigs left, and only a few days' ration of ring-tailed apes.
Sit here and watch the sun go down on the last of the ring-tailed apes?
Then it was the anxious time, with the boar so thin on the ground and barely a ring-tailed ape at all.
Along a precarious rock ledge a ring-tailed cat strolls, nose snuffling the cracks.
From the rocky scarp the ring-tailed cat hears the whole population of the desert pass about its business in the canyon below.
Yes, sir,' said Rowbotham, and shot into the rigging with the speed if not the grace of his cousin the ring-tailed lemur.
Down the ravaged slope, now steaming in the sun, across the torrent by the tangle of fallen trees with their treasure of boat and spars, and out along a firm, hammered low-tidc strand, littered with coconuts, presumably from Borneo, and with many drowned ring-tailed apes, certainly from here.
Piled next to the coyote's mark was the unmistakable reddish berry-filled scat of the ring-tailed cat.
Quiet as a ring-tailed cat, Kehrsyn sauntered across the foyer and ascended the stairwell, keeping a full revolution of the stairs between her and Ahegi.