Swallowtail

/ˈswɒl.əʊˌteɪl/

Synonyms for "swallowtail" (25 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Strong matches (8)

Noun(2 words)
coattailmorning coat

Related words (12)

Noun(6 words)
papilionid butterflyswallow-tailed coatswallowtail butterflyswallowtail catastropheswallowtailstail cut
pennantstandardstars and stripesstreamertricolorunion jack

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

7 entries
butterflycatastrophegarment featureinsectjacketmathematical concepttail shape

More specific

3 entries
black swallowtailold world swallowtailtiger swallowtail

Collocations

6 entries
black swallowtailold world swallowtailswallowtail butterflyswallowtail coatswallowtail flagswallowtail shape

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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Kotaro found a large swallowtail butterfly and chased him about 20 meters inside the grass field.

Source: tatoeba (1831865)

From bumblebees and swallowtail butterflies pollinating wild flowers to wolf spiders hunting along the forest floor, arthropods fill many niches critical in maintaining natural environments.

Source: tatoeba (12123590)

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

Source: wiktionary

Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated eye equally so in the cabinet.

Source: wiktionary

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