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Definition of Swan-neck

1. Noun. Any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swan-neck

Literary usage of Swan-neck

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

1. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1872)
"The body seemed full of minute globules, set in a granular mass of a blackish hue, and swan-neck AND ITS DIVISIONS. the outline was not a continuous line, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"... swan-neck, was still living. The marriage marks a change in his policy. In the earlier years of his power he did what he could to depress the rival ..."

3. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Munuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1896)
"... and swan-neck AND ITS DIVISIONS. the outline was not a continuous line, but formed a multitude of rounded elevations. Presently it protruded the clear ..."

4. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1883)
"... no notice of each other, even when passing close to each other ; the neck of swan-neck AND ITS DIVISIONS. one is much longer than that of the other. ..."

5. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"The last of the three arrows passed through the swan's neck, whereupon the bird rose into the air, and sailed away towards the setting sun. ..."

6. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1913)
"... stills—metals used in their construction—design—fittings—building of still—safety contrivances—swan-neck—steam pipes—charge block— dipping cock—manhole ..."

7. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1872)
"The body seemed full of minute globules, set in a granular mass of a blackish hue, and swan-neck AND ITS DIVISIONS. the outline was not a continuous line, ..."

8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"... swan-neck, was still living. The marriage marks a change in his policy. In the earlier years of his power he did what he could to depress the rival ..."

9. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Munuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1896)
"The body seemed full of minute globules, set in a granular mass of a blackish hue, and swan-neck AND ITS DIVISIONS. the outline was not a continuous line, ..."

10. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1883)
"There are, I see, two of them, which, however, take no notice of each other, even when passing close to each other ; the neck of swan-neck AND ITS ..."

11. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"The last of the three arrows passed through the swan's neck, whereupon the bird rose into the air, and sailed away towards the setting sun. ..."

12. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1913)
"... stills—metals used in their construction—design—fittings—building of still—safety contrivances—swan-neck—steam pipes—charge block— dipping cock—manhole ..."

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