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How to pronounce swallowtail in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms morning coat, swallow-tailed coat
Type of jacket

Examples of swallowtail

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Have you noticed swallowtail, gray hairsreak or sulphur butterflies in the garden?
From the chron.com
Citrus is host to several swallowtail butterflies including the giant swallowtail.
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Another caterpillar, black swallowtail, was also affected by the event-176 hybrids.
From the newscientist.com
Redbay is also the primary host for the larvae of the palamedes swallowtail butterfly.
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The pipevine swallowtail is another butterfly that is easily provided for in our area.
From the chron.com
After a while, Daniel, crouched, called me over to see a tiger swallowtail butterfly.
From the theatlantic.com
Redbay is also the primary host for the larvae of the palamedes swallowtail butterfly.
From the sciencedaily.com
Its bright green foliage provides food for swallowtail butterfly larvae.
From the sacbee.com
A swallowtail butterfly gathers nectar from bee balm flowers in northern Durham County.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • Swallow-tailed coat: a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back
  • In flag terminology, a swallowtail is either # a V-shaped cut in a flag that causes the flag to end in two points at the fly; or # any flag which has this V-shaped cut. nThe name comes from the forked tail that is a common feature of the swallow species of birds.
  • Females typically lay only one egg on a leaf, but each species of butterfly has its own particular "style" of laying eggs.
  • A specific kind of flag shape in which the fly-end of the flag tapers to two points.