wood swallow

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   Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow

   Synonymsswallow shrike

   Broaderoscine

   Part ofArtamus

Questions about wood swallow

What does wood swallow mean?

wood swallow means "Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow".

What is another word for wood swallow?

Close synonyms include swallow shrike. 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 wood swallow a common word?

wood swallow 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.