batwing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
noun
One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.
noun
A heart-shaped rollercoaster feature with two inversions.
Example Sentences
- "The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky."
- "His batwings were somehow more frightening for being the pathetic broken floundering things they were than if they had been strong, muscular beaters of the air."
- "The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splintery batwings. The doors swung back and forth as a man stepped before them and stood beneath the brush arbor, staring at Navarro,[…]"
- "He made it to the saloon undetected and slipped under the batwing and over to the table where he had left his saddlebags. They weren't there. Fargo ran his hands over the top of the table to be sure, and swore."
- "A tall figure stepped up to the batwing doors of the saloon as Tommy and Matt passed."
- "Feigning indifference, Stacey strolled quickly toward the batwings. Looking over the doors he saw Snow and his companions walking in the direction of the hotel, but he couldn't be sure that was where they were actually headed."