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Definition of Swallow-tailed
1. Adjective. (especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow.
Definition of Swallow-tailed
1. Adjective. Having a tail that is forked like a swallow's. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallow-tailed
Literary usage of Swallow-tailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A swallow-tailed animal, (a) Any swallow- tailed butterfly of the restricted family
... swallow- tailed butterfly, a swallowtail, as Papilio machaon, ..."
2. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"swallow-tailed HAWK. Bill short, wide at the base, much compressed toward the
end; upper mandible with the dorsal line decurved from the base, ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1900)
"The swallow-tailed Kite at Piermont, ... Just at noon, with the sky bright and
clear, I stepped out into the yard in time to see a swallow-tailed Kite i' ..."
4. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"THE swallow-tailed HAWK. ... Farther to the eastward, the swallow-tailed Hawk
has •never, I believe, been observed. ..."
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