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Definition of Redtail
1. Noun. Dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail.
Generic synonyms: Hawk
Group relationships: Buteo, Genus Buteo
2. Noun. European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins.
Definition of Redtail
1. n. The red-tailed hawk.
Definition of Redtail
1. Noun. The red-tailed hawk. ¹
2. Noun. The European redstart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redtail
1. a type of hawk [n -S]
Medical Definition of Redtail
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Redtail
Literary usage of Redtail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sipapu Odyssey by Dorushka Maerd (1995)
"TIIE redtail Dawn was hardly awake as the hawk took to the air for his morning
... He was the redtail, flying high above the world; down below him there was ..."
2. The Condor by Cooper Ornithological Society, Cooper Ornithological Club (1899)
"Setting my teeth in determination, I conquered the seeming impossibility, and
there soon lay before me not two nor three, but four eggs of the redtail, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"There 's redtail the Hawk watching this very minute from way up there in the sky.
... Now what harm have we ever done redtail or any of his family? ..."
4. List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British by British Museum (Natural History), George Robert Gray, Adam White, James Francis Stephens, Frederick Smith, Henry Denny, Henry Tibbats Stainton, Edwin Shepherd (1848)
"The Black redtail, Yarr. Brit. B. 2 edit. ip 264, fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 96.
n. Wimbledon Common. From Mr. J. Baker's collection. 4. ..."
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