hirundo rustica

1. 1.

   common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.

   Synonymsbarn swallowchimney swallow

   Broaderswallow

   Part ofHirundo

Questions about hirundo rustica

What does hirundo rustica mean?

hirundo rustica means "common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.".

What is another word for hirundo rustica?

Close synonyms include barn swallow, chimney swallow. 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 hirundo rustica a common word?

hirundo rustica 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.