Papilionidae vs Swallowtail - What's the difference?
papilionidae | swallowtail |
The forked tail of a swallow.
Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, having a forked extension to the hind wing.