swallowtails
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- واژهنامه · Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary black swallowtail Function: noun Date: 1889 : a usually dark-colored New World swallowtail ( Papilio polyxenes ) having yellow spots on the wing margins and a black spot centered within a larger orange spot on the hindwing inner edge swal·low·tail n. Pronunciation: ' swä-lō- ˌ tāl, -lə- Function: noun Date: 1703 1 : a deeply forked and tapering tail (as of a swallow) 2 : TAILCOAT 3 : any of various usually large brightly marked butterflies (family Papilionidae, especially genus Papilio ) with each hind wing typically having an elongated process –swal·low-tailed \- ˌ tāld\ adjective swallowtail tiger swallowtail Function: noun Date: 1889 : a large widely distributed swallowtail ( Papilio glaucus ) of eastern No. America that in the male is largely yellow with black margins and black stripes on the wings and in the female is usually similarly marked in the north but is very often all or mostly black in the south also : any of several closely related black and yellow swallowtails (as P. rutulus of western No. America)