"woodswallow" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: woodswallows [plural]
Etymology: wood + swallow Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wood|swallow}} wood + swallow Head templates: {{en-noun}} woodswallow (plural woodswallows)
  1. Any of the Artamidae, a family of soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds. Categories (lifeform): Malaconotoid birds
    Sense id: en-woodswallow-en-noun-8RJA95ee Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Derived forms: ashy woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus fuscus), Bismarck woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus insignis), black-faced woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus cinereus), dusky woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus cyanopterus), Fiji woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus mentalis), giant woodswallow, great woodswallow, greater woodswallow) (taxonomic: Artamus maximus), ivory-backed woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus monachus), little woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus minor), masked woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus personatus), New Guinea woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus maximus), white-backed woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus insignis), white-breasted woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus leucorynchus), white-browed woodswallow (taxonomic: Artamus superciliosus)

Inflected forms

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