swallow-tailed

1. 1.

   (especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow

   Similarcaudate

Questions about swallow-tailed

What does swallow-tailed mean?

swallow-tailed means "(especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow".

How many syllables are in swallow-tailed?

swallow-tailed has 3 syllables: swal-low--tailed. The stress falls on "swal".

Is swallow-tailed a common word?

swallow-tailed 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.