swallow-tailed

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: swal=low-tailed

CIDE DICTIONARY

swallow-tailed, a. 

•  Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.  [1913 Webster]
•  United by dovetailing; dovetailed.  [1913 Webster]

Swallow-tailed duck (Zoöl.), the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull (Zoöl.), an Arctic gull (Xema furcata), which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or Swallow-tailed kite (Zoöl.), the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth (Zoöl.), a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings.