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lyre-tailed

lyre-tailed adjective: of birds, having ornamental tail feathers that resemble the curved arms of a lyre.

Adjective

lyre-tailed (not comparable)

  1. Of birds, having ornamental tail feathers that resemble the curved arms of a lyre.
    • Thousands of crows, rather smaller than our rook, keep up a constant cawing in these plantations; the curious wood-swallows (Artami), which closely resemble swallows in their habits and flight but differ much in form and structure, twitter from the tree-tops; while a lyre-tailed drongo-shrike, with...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 338

Words formed from lyre-tailed

Questions about lyre-tailed

What does lyre-tailed mean?
Lyre-tailed means of birds, having ornamental tail feathers that resemble the curved arms of a lyre.
What part of speech is lyre-tailed?
Lyre-tailed is an adjective.

Words near lyre-tailed in the dictionary

  1. lyre snakes
  2. lyre sponge
  3. lyre-guitar
  4. lyre-guitars
  5. lyre-leaf sage
  6. lyre-tailed
  7. lyre-tailed honeyguide
  8. lyre-tailed nightjar
  9. lyrebird
  10. lyrebirds
  11. lyred

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