Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the tail boatshaped. See boat-shaped.
Examples
“So, I e-mailed the pictures to John, who writes A DC Birding Blog, and he identified it as a female boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major).”
“So, I e-mailed the pictures to John, who writes A DC Birding Blog, and he identified it as a female boat-tailed grackle Quiscalus major.”
“We'll use your out-of-date platform for the Mercedes SLK, which you're abandoning anyway, topped by our version of a '30's boat-tailed roadster body.”
“Mourning doves, ground doves, and common nighthawks nest and feed within the dune areas, while boat-tailed grackles and red-winged blackbirds feed on seed oat seeds in the fall.”
“It took the 180-grain boat-tailed Sierra bullet 1.3 seconds to reach the tower.”
“Land ordered match-grade boat-tailed ammo in lots.”
“As the waters ran away, leaving their spume behind to melt into the sand, a few of the plovers, sanderlings and funny boat-tailed grackles gave chase.”
“The great-tailed is more uniformly colored than the boat-tailed and slightly bigger.”
“Glossy, boat-tailed grackles had scared them off, she said, but I was to come in, sit on the porch, not move a muscle, and they might come back.”
“On this car, when the wooden propeller is spinning at full speed and efficiently, this little 1,000-pound boat-tailed skiff can hit freeway speeds exceeding 75 mph.”
Lists
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boat-tailed.
reesetee They do look like separate species to the untrained eye. Lots of other birds have fooled me that way too--including our friend the Red-Winged Blackbird. Sep 17, 2009
hernesheir When I first moved to Florida I seriously thought the black/purple/green irridescent male boat-tailed grackle and the smaller sooty ochre-colored females were two separate corvid species. Fooled me for a few weeks! Sep 17, 2009