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Hirundine

Hirundine \Hi*run"dine\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.

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hirundine

a. pertaining to a swallow n. a member of the swallow family

Usage examples of "hirundine".

It was a wonderfully beautiful day, with a slight and varying but reasonably favourable breeze at last: the sun blazed on the various kinds of broom in flower, upon the Rock, upon the cistuses and giant heath, while an uninterrupted stream of migrant birds, honey-buzzards, black kites, all the European vultures, storks both black and white, bee-eaters, hoopoes and countless hirundines flowed across the sky amidst a general indifference.