What Type Of Animal Is A Swallow?
swallow, any of the approximately 90 species of the bird family hirundinidae (order Passeriformes) A few, including the bank swallow, are called martins (see martin; see also woodswallow; for sea swallow, see tern). Why is it called swallow? In late Old English and Middle English it meant “gulf, abyss, hole in the earth, whirlpool,” also, … Read more