swallow
Noun
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same as: sup
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is a type of: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)subtypes:same as: deglutition, drink
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is a type of: oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatussubtypes:
- barn swallow, chimney swallow, hirundo rustica - common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.
- cliff swallow, hirundo pyrrhonota - North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls
- hirundo nigricans, tree martin, tree swallow - of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities
- iridoprocne bicolor, tree swallow, white-bellied swallow - bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities
- martin - any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas
Verb
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subtypes: bolt - swallow hastilysame as: get down
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is a type of: believe - accept as true; take to be true
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