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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls [syn: cliff swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1825 a colonial swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) of the New World with a pale buff rump and dark throat patch that builds mud nests resembling jugs especially under eaves and on cliffs

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cliff Cliff (kl[i^]f), n. [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See Climb.] A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zo["o]l.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.