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white-tip

white-tip is the alternative form of whitetip.

Meaning of whitetip

Noun

whitetip (plural whitetips)

  1. The oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus.
  2. The whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus.
  3. Any of the hummingbirds of the Urosticte genus, characterized by the white tips on the males' rectrices.
  4. Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Episynlestes, endemic to Australia.

Forms of white-tip

pluralwhite-tips

Questions about white-tip

What is white-tip the alternative form of?
White-tip is the alternative form of whitetip.

Words near white-tip in the dictionary

  1. white-throated tinamous
  2. white-throated wallabies
  3. white-throated wallaby
  4. white-throats
  5. white-tie
  6. white-tip
  7. white-tips
  8. white-trashery
  9. white-trashy
  10. white-water
  11. white-water rafting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: white-tip (page history and authors); whitetip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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