Swallowtail

//ˈswɒl.əʊˌteɪl//

Synonyms for "swallowtail" (21 found)

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Translations

42 translations across 15 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • лястовича опашка noun (tail of a swallow)
  • фрак noun (tailcoat)

Danish

3 entries
  • splitflag noun (anything of a similar forked shape)
  • svalehale noun (tail of a swallow)
  • svalehale noun (butterfly)

Dutch

4 entries
  • page noun (butterfly)
  • rok noun (tailcoat)
  • rokkostuum noun (tailcoat)
  • zwaluwstaart noun (tail of a swallow)

Finnish

4 entries
  • haarapyrstö noun (tail of a swallow)
  • haarukka noun (anything of a similar forked shape)
  • hännystakki noun (tailcoat)
  • ritariperhonen noun (butterfly)

French

3 entries
  • frac noun (tailcoat)
  • machaon noun (butterfly)
  • queue-de-pie noun (tailcoat)

German

4 entries
  • Frack noun (tailcoat)
  • Schwalbenschwanz noun (tail of a swallow)
  • Schwalbenschwanz noun (tailcoat)
  • Schwalbenschwanz noun (butterfly)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • fecskefark noun (tail of a swallow)
  • fecskefarok noun (tail of a swallow)
  • frakk noun (tailcoat)
  • pillangóféle noun (butterfly)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 揚羽蝶 noun (butterfly)
  • 燕尾 noun (tail of a swallow)
  • 燕尾服 noun (tailcoat)

Manx

1 entries
  • arbyl goalagh noun (tail of a swallow)

Navajo

1 entries
  • kʼaalógii bitseeʼ hólóní noun (butterfly)

Polish

4 entries
  • frak noun (tailcoat)
  • ogon jaskółki noun (tail of a swallow)
  • paź królowej noun (butterfly)
  • proporczyk noun (anything of a similar forked shape)

Russian

3 entries
  • ласточкин хвост noun (tail of a swallow)
  • па́русник noun (butterfly)
  • фрак noun (tailcoat)

Spanish

3 entries
  • cola de golondrina noun (tail of a swallow)
  • frac noun (tailcoat)
  • macaón noun (butterfly)

Swedish

2 entries
  • svalstjärt noun (tail of a swallow)
  • svalstjärt noun (butterfly)

Turkish

1 entries
  • kırlangıçkuyruk noun (butterfly)

Sample sentences

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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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