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SWALLOW-TAILED KITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swallow-tailed kite mean? 

SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (noun)
  The noun SWALLOW-TAILED KITE has 1 sense:

1. graceful North American black-and-white kiteplay

  Familiarity information: SWALLOW-TAILED KITE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Graceful North American black-and-white kite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Elanoides forficatus; swallow-tailed hawk; swallow-tailed kite

Hypernyms ("swallow-tailed kite" is a kind of...):

kite (any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals)

Holonyms ("swallow-tailed kite" is a member of...):

Elanoides; genus Elanoides (a genus of kites)


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