Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the outer web of the first primary retrorsely serrulate, as a swallow of the subfamily Psalidoprocninæ.
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Examples
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Several persistent rough-winged swallows, remembering the kindness of the James Gang the summer before, tried to build nests in the house eaves.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Several persistent rough-winged swallows, remembering the kindness of the James Gang the summer before, tried to build nests in the house eaves.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Several persistent rough-winged swallows, remembering the kindness of the James Gang the summer before, tried to build nests in the house eaves.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Several persistent rough-winged swallows, remembering the kindness of the James Gang the summer before, tried to build nests in the house eaves.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Other holes may lead to the nests of bank swallows or northern rough-winged swallows.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Other holes may lead to the nests of bank swallows or northern rough-winged swallows.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Other holes may lead to the nests of bank swallows or northern rough-winged swallows.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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The rare rough-winged swallow deigns to linger and nest in the Park as well as do his more common brethren.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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The rough-winged swallow builds in the wall and in old stone heaps, and I have seen the robin build in similar localities.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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The rough-winged swallow builds in the wall and in old stone-heaps, and I have seen the robin build in similar localities.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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