Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of racquet
- not comparablebiologyHaving a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.
All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata.
2010, Bruce Campbell, Elizabeth Lack, A Dictionary of Birds, →ISBN, page 5162 more examples
Sometimes one finds oneself in the domain of the Motmots, which look at you from their thickets, swinging their curious racqueted tails from right to left after the manner of a clock's pendulum, and uttering bubbling notes...
1922, The Avicultural Magazine, page 163C. spatulata agrees with abyssinica in its pale blue underparts, but it has a long, forked, racqueted tail which is rather different in pattern, and it has rufous brown (not pale blue) greater wing-coverts.
1978, David William Snow, An atlas of speciation in African non-passerine birds, page 312
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