Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A British moth, Phtheochroa rugosana.
- noun A rough-winged swallow.
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The martin, the barn swallow, the bank swallow, the roughwing, and the cliff swallow breed locally in Texas, and all of them, except the cliff swallow, breed in the other cotton states.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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