racqueted
English
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Verb
racqueted
- simple past and past participle of racquet
Adjective
racqueted (not comparable)
- (ornithology) Having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.
- 1922, The Avicultural Magazine, page 163:
- Sometimes one finds oneself in the domain of the Motmots, which look at you from their thickets, swinging their curious racqueted tails from right to left after the manner of a clock's pendulum, and uttering bubbling notes...
- 2010, Bruce Campbell & Elizabeth Lack, A Dictionary of Birds, →ISBN, page 516:
- All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata.
- 1978, David William Snow, An atlas of speciation in African non-passerine birds, page 312:
- C. spatulata agrees with abyssinica in its pale blue underparts, but it has a long, forked, racqueted tail which is rather different in pattern, and it has rufous brown (not pale blue) greater wing-coverts.