WHITE-TAILED KITE

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

• WHITE-TAILED KITE (noun)
  The noun WHITE-TAILED KITE has 1 sense:

1. grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE-TAILED KITE (noun)

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Meaning:

Grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Elanus leucurus; white-tailed kite

Hypernyms ("white-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 ("white-tailed kite" is a member of...):

Elanus; genus Elanus (a genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds)