cypseliform

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English

Etymology

Latin cypselus (a kind of swallow), from Ancient Greek.

Adjective

cypseliform (comparative more cypseliform, superlative most cypseliform)

  1. (zoology) Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidae, now known as the Apodidae.)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cypseliform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)