Meaning

4 senses
  1. The forked tail of a swallow.

    Schwalbenschwanz

    ласточкин хвостlástočkin χvost

  2. Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.

  3. A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.

    Frack, Schwalbenschwanz

    фракfrak

    a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back

  4. Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.

    Schwalbenschwanz

    па́русникpárusnik

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Kotaro found a large swallowtail butterfly and chased him about 20 meters inside the grass field.

  2. We saw several swallowtails and caterpillars. And there's this really fat one that should be turning into a chrysalis soon.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
tail of a swallow:
tailcoat:
butterfly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tail of a swallow:
tailcoat:

Origin

From swallow + tail.

From swallow + tail.

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Forms

plural: swallowtails
Singularswallowtail
Pluralswallowtails

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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