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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls;
[syn: cliff swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cliff \Cliff\ (kl[i^]f), n. [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See Climb.] A high, steep rock; a precipice. [1913 Webster] Cliff swallow (Zool.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cliff swallow n 1: North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls [syn: cliff swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota]