Definition of Swallow-tailed kite

1. Noun. Graceful North American black-and-white kite.

Exact synonyms: Elanoides Forficatus, Swallow-tailed Hawk
Generic synonyms: Kite
Group relationships: Elanoides, Genus Elanoides

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallow-tailed Kite

swaknoite
swale
swaled
swales
swalier
swaliest
swaling
swalings
swallet
swallets
swallie
swallow
swallow-tailed
swallow-tailed coat
swallow-tailed hawk
swallow-tailed kite (current term)
swallow dive
swallow hole
swallow one's pride
swallow shrike
swallow up
swallow wort
swallowable
swallowe
swallowed
swallowers
swallowest
swalloweth
swallowfish

Literary usage of Swallow-tailed kite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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' ..."

2. Natural History for the Use of Schools and Families by Worthington Hooker (1864)
"The swallow-tailed kite. carries it off to devour it in the air, as represented in the figure. 225. As the Hawks may be regarded as an inferior kind of ..."

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