swing-wing

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[onlybeforenoun] used to describe an aircraft wing that can be moved forward for landing, etc. and backward for rapid flight: a swing-wing bomber

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

swing-wingEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary swing-wingEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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