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n. any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards [syn: whiptail lizard]
Wikipedia
Whiptail can refer to the following:
- Fish:
- A common name for Blue grenadier, a species of fish of the genus Macruronus
- Whiptail catfish, a common name for the genus of fish Rineloricaria
- A wide variety of long-tailed, New World lizard species from several genera in the Teiid family; also known as racerunners and jungle runners.
- Ameiva - jungle runners
- Aspidoscelis - northern whiptails
- Cnemidophorus - southern whiptails
- Kentropyx - spurred whiptails
- Whiptail (company), a company that builds solid-state data storage systems
- Whiptail (plant disorder)
- (Computing): In Unix-like shell scripting, a " dialog" replacement using Newt instead of ncurses.
Whiptail (styled as WHIPTAIL) was previously a privately held company that builds data storage systems out of solid-state drive components. Whiptail designed and commercialized the use of NAND flash memory as a replacement for hard disk drives in large-scale storage systems. The company is named after the whiptail racerunner, a fast lizard species indigenous to the southwestern United States.
On October 29, 2013,Whiptail (advised by Eric Mandl and Vikram Rao) was acquired by Cisco Systems for approximately US $415M.
Usage examples of "whiptail".
There were two whiptails, one on top of the other, clinging for dear life, locked together in a coital embrace.
Four-footed white skeletons scampered through the branches trailing furless vertebrae like the whiptails of scorpions.
They were mostly Hanuman monkeys—flailing, whiptailed ectomorphs who acted as if they owned the place—which, according to Hindoos, they did.
A chalky brown whiptail lizard darted furiously past, scaled quicksilver pouring down a rock.