swallowtail

suomi-englanti sanakirja

swallowtail englannista suomeksi

  1. hännystakki

  1. Substantiivi

  2. haarapyrstö

  3. haarukka

  4. hännystakki

  5. ritariperhonen

swallowtail englanniksi

  1. The forked tail of a swallow.

  2. Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.

  3. A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.

  4. (quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year_published=|volume=I|location=London|page=471|passage=They have a peculiar style of dress which they wear among themselves, a close-fitting white shirt with black trousers, and a black frock or upper shirt. The women seem to prefer a dress entirely black. On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimney-pot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress.

  5. (RQ:Weyman Chippinge Borough)

  6. Any of various butterflies of the family (taxfmt), many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.

  7. (quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year_published=|volume=I|location=London|page=297|passage=Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated eye equally so in the cabinet.

  8. (quote-book) and the biggest, most beautiful black-and-yellow Jamaican swallowtail butterfly follow behind she, like it give us it little blessing.