swan dive swallow dive | a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water |
swallow drink deglutition | the act of swallowing, one swallow of the liquid was enough, he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips |
swallow | small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations |
barn swallow chimney swallow Hirundo rustica | common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. |
cliff swallow Hirundo pyrrhonota | North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls |
tree swallow tree martin Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
white-bellied swallow tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
bank martin bank swallow sand martin Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
wood swallow swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
swallow-tailed kite swallow-tailed hawk Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
fairy swallow | fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet |
chimney swift chimney swallow Chateura pelagica | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys |
sea swallow Sterna hirundo | common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage |
grey snapper gray snapper mangrove snapper Lutjanus griseus | found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida |
swallow-tailed coat swallowtail morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
swallow sup | a small amount of liquid food, a sup of ale |
sinkhole sink swallow hole | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
celandine greater celandine swallowwort swallow wort Chelidonium majus | perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers |
button tree button mangrove Conocarpus erectus | evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood |
white mangrove Laguncularia racemosa | shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America, locally important as a source of tannin |
Rhizophoraceae family Rhizophoraceae mangrove family | trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts |
mangrove Rhizophora mangle | a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building |
black mangrove Avicennia marina | a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast, occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground |
white mangrove Avicennia officinalis | a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific |
black mangrove Aegiceras majus | an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida |
swallow | believe or accept without questioning or challenge, Am I supposed to swallow that story? |
accept live with swallow | tolerate or accommodate oneself to, I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions, I swallowed the insult, She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies |
swallow | keep from expressing, I swallowed my anger and kept quiet |
swallow take back unsay withdraw | take back what one has said, He swallowed his words |
swallow | utter indistinctly, She swallowed the last words of her speech |
swallow | engulf and destroy, The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries |
swallow get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking, Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you! |
immerse swallow swallow up bury eat up | enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing, The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter |
swallow-tailed | (especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow |