Definitions for wood-swallow

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wood-swallow wood-swal·low

Spelling: [woo d-swol-oh]

IPA: /ˈwʊdˌswɒl oʊ/

Wood-Swallow is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in wood-swallow (-adlloooswww).

Definitions for wood-swallow

noun

1. any of several slate-colored songbirds of the family Artamidae, of southeastern Asia, Australia, and New Guinea, having long, pointed wings and noted for their swift, soaring flight.

Origin of wood-swallow

First recorded in 1850-55

Examples for wood-swallow

Fourteen of the 17 members of the wood-swallow family are confined to the Australian region.

This wood-swallow is the only Micronesian representative of Artamus leucorhynchus.