Usually means: Forked or split into two.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word swallow-tailed:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. swallow-tailed: Merriam-Webster
  2. swallow-tailed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swallow-tailed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swallow-tailed, swallow-tailed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swallow-tailed: Vocabulary.com
  6. swallow-tailed: Wordnik
  7. swallow-tailed: Wiktionary
  8. swallow-tailed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. swallow-tailed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. swallow-tailed: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. swallow-tailed: Dictionary.com
  12. Swallow-tailed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. swallow-tailed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. swallow-tailed: Rhymezone
  15. Swallow-tailed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. swallow-tailed: FreeDictionary.org
  17. swallow-tailed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. swallow-tailed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swallow-tailed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Swallow-tailed)

▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of swallowtailed [Having a forked tail like a swallow's.]

Similar:
caudate, caudated, pony-tailed, cut-throat, bellmouthed, sidewhiskered, shovelnosed, flannelmouthed, turtle-necked, tightlipped, more...

Types:
spade-tailed, fork-tailed, scimitar-tailed, blade-tailed, keel-tailed, more...

Phrases:
swallow-tailed kite, swallow-tailed coat, swallow-tailed hawk, swallow-tailed gull, swallow-tailed duck, more...

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Similar:
caudate, caudated, pony-tailed, cut-throat, bellmouthed, sidewhiskered, shovelnosed, flannelmouthed, turtle-necked, tightlipped, more...

Types:
spade-tailed, fork-tailed, scimitar-tailed, blade-tailed, keel-tailed, more...

Phrases:
swallow-tailed kite, swallow-tailed coat, swallow-tailed hawk, swallow-tailed gull, swallow-tailed duck, swallow-tailed moth, more...



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