swallow (noun)

  • 101Hirundo pyrrhonota — noun North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls • Syn: ↑cliff swallow • Hypernyms: ↑swallow • Member Holonyms: ↑Hirundo, ↑genus Hirundo …

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  • 102oscine bird — noun passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus • Syn: ↑oscine • Derivationally related forms: ↑oscine (for: ↑oscine) • Hypernyms: ↑passerine, ↑passeriform bi …

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  • 103food — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ delicious, excellent, good, great, superb, tasty, wonderful ▪ favourite/favorite ▪ decent …

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  • 104Pilgrim athers — noun the Pilgrim Fathers the group of English people who arrived to settle at Plymouth, Massachusetts in the US in 1620 pill /pIl/ noun 1 (C) a small solid piece of medicine, that you swallow whole: He has to take pills to control his blood… …

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  • 105Chelidonium — noun one species: greater celandine • Syn: ↑genus Chelidonium • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Papaveraceae, ↑family Papaveraceae, ↑ …

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  • 106celandine — noun Etymology: Middle English celidoine, from Anglo French, from Latin chelidonia, from feminine of chelidonius of the swallow, from Greek chelidonios, from chelidon , chelidōn swallow Date: 12th century 1. a yellow flowered Eurasian biennial… …

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  • 107deglutition — noun Etymology: French déglutition, from Latin deglutire to swallow down, from de + glutire, gluttire to swallow more at glutton Date: 1650 the act or process of swallowing …

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  • 108groundsel — noun Etymology: Middle English groundeswele, from Old English grundeswelge, from grund ground + swelgan to swallow more at swallow Date: before 12th century any of various senecios (as the nearly cosmopolitan European weed Senecio vulgaris) …

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  • 109martin — noun Etymology: probably from Saint Martin Date: 1589 1. a small Eurasian bird (Delichon urbica) of the swallow family with a forked tail, bluish black head and back, and white rump and underparts 2. any of various birds (especially genus Progne) …

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  • 110swallowtail — noun Date: 1703 1. a deeply forked and tapering tail (as of a swallow) 2. tailcoat 3. any of various usually large brightly marked butterflies (family Papilionidae, especially genus Papilio) with each hind wing typically having an elongated… …

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