'Swallow-tailed hawk' definitions:
Definition of 'swallow-tailed hawk'
From: WordNet
noun
Graceful North American black-and-white kite [syn: swallow-tailed kite, swallow-tailed hawk, Elanoides forficatus]
Definition of 'Swallow-tailed hawk'
From: GCIDE
- Swallow-tailed \Swal"low-tailed`\, a.
- 1. Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Carp.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed. [1913 Webster]
- Swallow-tailed duck (Zool.), the old squaw.
- Swallow-tailed gull (Zool.), an Arctic gull ({Xema furcata}), which has a deeply forked tail.
- Swallow-tailed hawk or Swallow-tailed kite (Zool.), the fork-tailed kite.
- Swallow-tailed moth (Zool.), a European moth ({Urapteryx sambucaria}) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings. [1913 Webster]