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# swiftlet

«swiftlet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small bird of the swift family living in tropical Asia…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a swiftlet, swiftlets)

### meaning for a pupil

A small bird of the swift family living in tropical Asia and Australia, many of which nest in caves and find their way in the dark with clicking sounds (echolocation). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of a bird that uses echolocation like bats. In geography, some swiftlets make nests of their own spit that people collect for bird's nest soup. Phrases: cave swiftlet, edible-nest swiftlet.

### examples

- Swiftlets nest high on the walls of dark caves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#x1)
- A swiftlet clicks to find its way in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#x2)
- Some swiftlets build nests from their own spit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#x3)
- Bird's nest soup is made from swiftlet nests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#x4)
- Swiftlets catch insects while flying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#x5)
- The cave was full of the sound of swiftlets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/#x6)

### note

Countable. The -let ending means small (like piglet, booklet). Swiftlets are not swallows, though they look alike.

### In the corpora

- [Cave swiftlets are among the very few birds that echolocate, and some swiftlets build nests from their own saliva.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swiftlet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swiftlet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.