elanus leucurus

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

   Synonymswhite-tailed kite

   Broaderkite

   Part ofElanus

Questions about elanus leucurus

What does elanus leucurus mean?

elanus leucurus means "grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions".

What is another word for elanus leucurus?

Close synonyms include white-tailed kite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elanus leucurus a common word?

elanus leucurus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.