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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A group of birds, so named from the length of the terminal as compared with the proximal portion of the wing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
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