Having each of the hind wings prolonged into a ‘tail’, the two together suggesting the forked tail of a swallow, as the swallow-tailed butterfly n.…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > member of (swallow-tail) (4) swallow-tailed butterfly1743 Having each of the hind wings prolonged into a ‘tail’, the two together suggesting the forked tail of a swallow, as the swallow-tailed butterfly n.… swallowtail butterfly?1749 attributive. = swallow-tailed, adj.: as in swallowtail butterfly, swallowtail coat, swallowtail moth, swallowtail pennon; also formerly applied… zebra swallowtail1855 a large swallowtail butterfly having white wings with black longitudinal stripes, Protographium marcellus, native to eastern North America. swallowtail1869 Applied to various animals having a forked tail. A swallow-tailed butterfly. |
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