- red-tailed tropic bird
- noun
: a tropic bird (Phaëton rubricauda)
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red-tailed tropic bird,a tropic bird of the Indian and Pacific oceans, with a white body tinted with pink and a reddish tail.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
red-tailed tropic bird
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