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Beaver tail

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ4878222 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beaver tail or Beavertail may refer to:

The tail of a beaver

Beaver tail (pastry), a fried dough food

BeaverTails, a Canadian restaurant chain specializing in beaver tail pastries

Opuntia basilaris, beavertail cactus or beavertail pricklypear

Calochortus coeruleus, beavertail grass

Beavertail State Park, in Rhode Island, U.S.

Beavertail Hill State Park, in Montana, U.S.

Beavertail, a type of flatbed truck tow truck

Beaver Tail (railcar), built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Beaver tail” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beaver, tail and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 71-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Beaver, tail and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Beaver tail” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.