white-tailed kite

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

   SynonymsElanus leucurus

   Broaderkite

   Part ofElanus

Questions about white-tailed kite

What does white-tailed kite mean?

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

What is another word for white-tailed kite?

Close synonyms include Elanus leucurus. 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 white-tailed kite a common word?

white-tailed kite 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.