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plural martins
Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. quotations examples
Roof-haunting martins warm their eggs: / In these, in those the life is stay’d.
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 150