WHITE-TAILED KITE

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Meaning:

Grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions

Synonyms:

Elanus leucurus; white-tailed kite

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("white-tailed kite" is a kind of...):

kite (any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals)

Holonyms ("white-tailed kite" is a member of...):

Elanus; genus Elanus (a genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds)

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