tree swallow

tree swallow

noun
a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism
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Tree swallow is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
tree swallow

noun
1. bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities [syn: white-bellied swallow
2. of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities 
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