CLIFF SWALLOW

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Meaning:

North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls

Synonyms:

cliff swallow; Hirundo pyrrhonota

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cliff swallow" is a kind of...):

swallow (small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations)

Holonyms ("cliff swallow" is a member of...):

genus Hirundo; Hirundo (type genus of the Hirundinidae)

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