red-tailed : Idioms & Phrases

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Red-tailed hawk

  • noun dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
    redtail; Buteo jamaicensis.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.
Webster 1913