Search Result for "elanoides forficatus":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. graceful North American black-and-white kite;
[syn: swallow-tailed kite, swallow-tailed hawk, Elanoides forficatus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fork-tailed \Fork"-tailed`\, a. (Zool.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. [1913 Webster] Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zool.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). Fork-tailed gull (Zool.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. Fork-tailed kite (Zool.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Elanoides forficatus n 1: graceful North American black-and-white kite [syn: swallow-tailed kite, swallow-tailed hawk, Elanoides forficatus]