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• fork|tail — «FRK TAYL», noun. 1. a fish with a forked tail, such as the salmon and swordfish. 2. a bird with a forked tail, such as the kite …   Useful english dictionary

• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel — Conservation status Least Concern ( …   Wikipedia

• Fork-tailed Drongo — Conservation status Least Concern ( …   Wikipedia

• Fork-tailed — a. (Zo[ o]l.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow tailed; said of many birds. [1913 Webster] {Fork tailed flycatcher} (Zo[ o]l.), a tropical American flycatcher ({Milvulus tyrannus}). {Fork tailed gull} (Zo[ o]l.) …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fork-tailed flycatcher — Fork tailed Fork tailed , a. (Zo[ o]l.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow tailed; said of many birds. [1913 Webster] {Fork tailed flycatcher} (Zo[ o]l.), a tropical American flycatcher ({Milvulus tyrannus}).… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fork-tailed gull — Fork tailed Fork tailed , a. (Zo[ o]l.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow tailed; said of many birds. [1913 Webster] {Fork tailed flycatcher} (Zo[ o]l.), a tropical American flycatcher ({Milvulus tyrannus}).… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fork-tailed kite — Fork tailed Fork tailed , a. (Zo[ o]l.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow tailed; said of many birds. [1913 Webster] {Fork tailed flycatcher} (Zo[ o]l.), a tropical American flycatcher ({Milvulus tyrannus}).… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• fork-tailed — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective or forktail ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ : having the tail or posterior end of the body deeply cleft a fork tailed schistosome cercaria usually : having the outer feathers or rays of the tail much longer than the central ones used of birds and …   Useful english dictionary

• Fork-tailed Flycatcher — Taxobox name = Fork tailed Flycatcher status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 200px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Passeriformes familia = Tyrannidae genus = Tyrannus species = T. savana binomial = Tyrannus… …   Wikipedia

• Fork-crowned lemur — Taxobox name = Fork crowned lemursMSW3 Groves | pages = 114] image width = 299px image caption = An Eastern Fork marked Lemur lithograph from Brehms Tierleben (1860) status = LR/nt status system = iucn2.3 status ref = IUCN2007 | assessors =… …   Wikipedia