尾

strong beginning and weak ending; anticlimax

Expressions

tiger's tail

Word usually written using kana alone

gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides)

Word usually written using kana alone

Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort)

Music

stem (of a note)

Music

tail (of a note)

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

final effort; final spurt

end; close; conclusion

tailplane; horizontal stabilizer; horizontal stabiliser

end; close; conclusion

mating season

to copulate (animals); to mate

gun breech

Grammar

suffix

ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)

end; conclusion; finale

tail of a swift horse; behind a great person

tail recursion

Grammar

inflection; conjugation; declension

Idiomatic expression

to succeed by following the lead of an expert; to get ahead by following someone's lead

drooping tail

Sargassum fulvellum (species of edible brown alga)

breech (of a gun)

green foxtail (Setaria viridis); green bristlegrass

tail (of an aeroplane, airplane)

牛尾魚 is gikun

flathead (esp. the bartailed flathead, Platycephalus indicus)

end of a book

えびお only

goldfish with a shrimp-like tail

head of a shamisen or lute (bent back like a shrimp's tail)