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Fork-tailed adj. (Zool.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; said of many birds.

Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zool.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus).

Fork-tailed gull (Zool.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean.

Fork-tailed kite (Zool.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); called also swallow-tailed kite.

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Etymology of 'Fork-tailed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fork-tailed" Quotes from Famous Books

... up in the cleared fields. Turkey buzzards and carrion, crows might be seen perched upon their grey naked limbs; upon their summit you might observe the great rough-legged falcon; and above all, cutting sharply against the blue sky, the fork-tailed ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... bird is the proud possessor of a genuine scissorstail, composed of two long, slender prongs that are spread far apart under certain conditions of flight. Let me describe the process minutely, for it is unique here in North America where fork-tailed birds are rare. ...

— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

... the weary want to be at rest the wicked won't cease from troubling. Hence the occasional skirmishes and alarms which may lead my friends to misdoubt my absolute detachment from sublunary affairs. Perhaps peace dwells only among the fork-tailed Petrels! ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley