Meaning of lyre-tailed | Babel Free

Definitions

Of birds, having ornamental tail feathers that resemble the curved arms of a lyre.

not-comparable

Examples

“Thousands of crows, rather smaller than our rook, keep up a constant cawing in these plantations; the curious wood-swallows (Artami), which closely resemble swallows in their habits and flight but differ much in form and structure, twitter from the tree-tops; while a lyre-tailed drongo-shrike, with brilliant black plumage and milk-white eyes, continually deceives the naturalist by the variety of its unmelodious notes.”

CEFR level