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hirundine
[ hi-ruhn-din, -dahyn ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling the swallow.
hirundine
/ hɪˈrʌndɪn; -daɪn /
adjective
- of or resembling a swallow
- belonging to the bird family Hirundinidae, which includes swallows and martins
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of hirundine1
1825–35; < Late Latin hirundineus of a swallow, equivalent to hirundin- (stem of ³ó¾±°ù³Ü²Ô»åÅ ) swallow + -eus adj. suffix; -eous
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of hirundine1
C19: from Late Latin hirundineus, from Latin ³ó¾±°ù³Ü²Ô»åÅ a swallow
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Hirundine, hi-run′din, adj. of or pertaining to the swallow.
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Were the stragglers which I had for some time been watching, flying high, but well within easy ken, and these dense, hardly discernible clusters—hirundine nebulæ, as it were—were all these but parts of one innumerable host, the main body of which was passing far above me altogether unseen?
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