forktail

noun — 5 senses

forktail

noun

Etymology From fork + tail.

1

Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.

2

A green junglefowl (Gallus varius).

3

Any of the genus Ischnura of damselflies.

4

Hong Kong Any fish of the species Ariomma indica.

5

UK, Dialectal, Obsolete A salmon in its fourth year of growth.

Derived terms
35 termsblack-backed forktail, Bornean forktail, chestnut-naped forktail, little forktail, slaty-backed forktail, spotted forktail, Sunda forktail, white-crowned forktail, black-fronted forktail, citrine forktail, desert forktail, eastern forktail, fragile forktail, furtive forktail, lilypad forktail, Mexican forktail, Pacific forktail, plains forktail, Rambur's forktail, San Francisco forktail, swift forktail, western forktail, African forktail snapper, forktail bigeye bream, forktail blenny, forktail blue-eye, forktail catfish, forktail dottyback, forktail dwarfgoby, forktail large-eye bream, forktail lates (Lates microlepis, forktail pygmy goby, forktail rabbitfish, forktail rainbowfish, forktail tilefish
Related terms
forkytail

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.