a. [f. SQUIRREL sb. Cf. prec.] Having a tail resembling that of the squirrel in form or character.
1840. Hodgson, Hist. Northumb., III. II. 361/2. Leucodon sciuroides, Squirrel-tailed Leucodon.
1856. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Rur. Sports, 236/1. The tail [of the dew-worm] tapers somewhat, but in the squirrel-tailed variety it is flattened.
1894–5. Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., III. 107. Of the European species the largest is the squirrel-tailed dormouse (Musglis).
