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Pintail

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Pintail meaning

A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail. | A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail. | A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.

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Example sentences (2)

A daughter, Dafila, was born later in the same year (dafila is the old scientific name for a pintail ).

Thus, hieroglyphic writing representing a pintail duck is read in Egyptian as sꜣ, derived from the main consonants of the Egyptian word for this duck: 's', 'ꜣ' and 't'.