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All empennage synonyms

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noun empennage

  • part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • butt — Someone's butt is their bottom.
  • rear — the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
  • rudder — Nautical. a vertical blade at the stern of a vessel that can be turned horizontally to change the vessel's direction when in motion.
  • appendage — An appendage is something that is joined to or connected with something larger or more important.
  • behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
  • buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
  • conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
  • posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
  • reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
  • rump — the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
  • stub — a short projecting part.
  • tag — a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer.
  • tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
  • train — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • tush — tushie.
  • fag end — the last part or very end of something: the fag end of a rope.
  • tag end — the last or final part of something: They came in at the tag end of the performance.
  • wagger — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
  • tail — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
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