racqueted

1. (ornithology) Having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.Examples: "Sometimes one finds oneself in the domain of the Motmots, which look at you from their thickets, swinging their curious racqueted tails from right to left after the manner of a clock's pendulum, and uttering bubbling notes..."; "All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata."; "C. spatulata agrees with abyssinica in its pale blue underparts, but it has a long, forked, racqueted tail which is rather different in pattern, and it has rufous brown (not pale blue) greater wing-coverts."not-comparable