| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.[Websters] 2. Being swallow-tailed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb fork-tailedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (fork-tailedly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective fork-tailed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Fork-tailed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fork-tailed Drongo | The Fork-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus adsimilis, is a drongo, a type of small passerine bird of the Old World tropics. They were previously classed as the family Dicruridae, but that has been much enlarged to include a number of largely Australasian groups, such as the Australasian fantails, monarchs and paradise flycatchers. (references) | ||
| Fork-tailed flycatcher | (Zo["o]l.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fork-tailed gull | (Zo["o]l.), a gull of the genus Xema , of two species, esp. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fork-tailed kite | (Zo["o]l.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fork-tailed Palm Swift | The Fork-tailed Palm Swift, Tachornis squamata, is a resident breeding bird from Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Trinidad south to northeastern Peru and Brazil. (references) | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Extended Definition: FORK-TAILEDFork-tailedFork-tailed may refer to:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Fork-tailed". Image Credit. |
Topics by Level of Interest: FORK-TAILED | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fork-tailed Drongo | 9 | Fork-tailed | 2 | |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | 9 | Fork-tailed Drongo | 9 | |
| Fork-tailed Palm Swift | 8 | Fork-tailed Emerald | 5 | |
| Fork-tailed Storm-petrel | 6 | Fork-tailed Flycatcher | 9 | |
| Fork-tailed Sunbird | 5 | Fork-tailed Palm Swift | 8 | |
| Fork-tailed Pygmy-tyrant | 5 | Fork-tailed Pygmy-tyrant | 5 | |
| Fork-tailed Woodnymph | 5 | Fork-tailed Storm-petrel | 6 | |
| Fork-tailed Emerald | 5 | Fork-tailed Sunbird | 5 | |
| Fork-tailed | 2 | Fork-tailed Woodnymph | 5 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
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