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salangane Zool.|ˈsæləŋgeɪn|
Also 8 saligan, 9 salagane.
[ad. F. salangane or mod.L. salangāna, sc. avis, f. salamga, name of the bird in Luzon.]
One of the birds of the genus Collocalia, which make edible nests; an esculent swallow.
1793Smellie tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. Birds VI. 577 Nothing better shews that the Salangane has remained long unknown, than the different names bestowed on it. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 589 The nest of the bird saligan affords that dissolving jelly. 1869–73T. R. Jones Cassell's Bk. Birds II. 119 The Salangane usually builds in such deep and dark cavities that [etc.]. |