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Fork-tailed   Listen
adjective
Fork-tailed  adj.  (Zool.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; said of many birds.
Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zool.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus).
Fork-tailed gull (Zool.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean.
Fork-tailed kite (Zool.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); called also swallow-tailed kite.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fork-tailed" Quotes from Famous Books



... sound of that word; to his mind it well fitted the Warlockian witches. And the one they were watching in action continued her steady backward retreat, rolling her bemused captive out of the water. What emerged into the blaze of sunlight was one of those fork-tailed sea dwellers such as the Terrans had seen die after the storm. The thing crawled out of the shallows, its eyes focused in a blind stare on the praying hands of ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton

... the weary want to be at rest the wicked won't cease from troubling. Hence the occasional skirmishes and alarms which may lead my friends to misdoubt my absolute detachment from sublunary affairs. Perhaps peace dwells only among the fork-tailed Petrels! ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley



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