Racqueted
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Racqueted is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of racquet.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of racquet.
More Meanings
- (ornithology) Having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.
Example Sentences
All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include racket, snowshoe, striker, spatular, longipennate, auriculated.
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