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Definition of Swallowtail

1. Noun. A man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back.

Definition of Swallowtail

1. n. A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Definition of Swallowtail

1. Noun. the forked tail of a swallow. ¹

2. Noun. anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape. ¹

3. Noun. a type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails. ¹

4. Noun. any of various butterflies of the family ''Papilionidae'', having a forked extension to the hind wing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swallowtail

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallowtail

Literary usage of Swallowtail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers by Edwin Anderson Alderman (1906)
"1 As long as the sun shines Black swallowtail is happy, and flies from flower to flower. Black swallowtail is not a bird. He is a butterfly with four broad ..."

2. Moths and Butterflies by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1901)
"THE TIGER S WTAIL THE larva of the Tiger swallowtail, or Turnus butterfly, ... In the spring this chrysalis develops into the yellow Tiger swallowtail (Fig. ..."

3. Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers : A Third Reader by Edwin Anderson Alderman (1906)
"I As long as the sun shines Black swallowtail is happy, ... Black swallowtail is not a bird. He is a butterfly with four broad wings, and six legs. ..."

4. Every-day Butterflies: A Group of Biographies by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1899)
"... ZEBRA swallowtail THE Zebra swallowtail, one of our most elegant butterflies, is found throughout our southern States east of the Mississippi in great ..."

5. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1901)
"The corps engineers will be designated by a swallowtail flag 5 feet on the staff and 5 feet fly, with swallowtail 1 foot deep; flag to be divided into two ..."

6. National Kindergarten Manual: Containing Practical Model Lessons by Mrs. Louise Pollock (1888)
"MISS swallowtail. W. II. S. ONE bright spring-morning a little butterfly woke from a. long winter's nap and found herself shut up in such a wee bit of a ..."

7. Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers by Edwin Anderson Alderman (1906)
"1 As long as the sun shines Black swallowtail is happy, and flies from flower to flower. Black swallowtail is not a bird. He is a butterfly with four broad ..."

8. Moths and Butterflies by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1901)
"THE TIGER S WTAIL THE larva of the Tiger swallowtail, or Turnus butterfly, ... In the spring this chrysalis develops into the yellow Tiger swallowtail (Fig. ..."

9. Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers : A Third Reader by Edwin Anderson Alderman (1906)
"I As long as the sun shines Black swallowtail is happy, ... Black swallowtail is not a bird. He is a butterfly with four broad wings, and six legs. ..."

10. Every-day Butterflies: A Group of Biographies by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1899)
"... ZEBRA swallowtail THE Zebra swallowtail, one of our most elegant butterflies, is found throughout our southern States east of the Mississippi in great ..."

11. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1901)
"The corps engineers will be designated by a swallowtail flag 5 feet on the staff and 5 feet fly, with swallowtail 1 foot deep; flag to be divided into two ..."

12. National Kindergarten Manual: Containing Practical Model Lessons by Mrs. Louise Pollock (1888)
"MISS swallowtail. W. II. S. ONE bright spring-morning a little butterfly woke from a. long winter's nap and found herself shut up in such a wee bit of a ..."

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