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Capistrano
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English
Proper noun
en informal The city of San Juan Capistrano, California, known for its cliff swallows.
2003, Talmage Powell, "Survival Exercise", in, 2003, Kit Duane, editor, The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night, Chronicle Books, 0811837777, page 138,
I felt the sick certainty that the thing had antennae, a sense unknown to human beings—a guidance system like the sonar of a bat, the instinct of a Capistrano swallow, the built-in controls of an SAM missile.
See also
en Capistrano Beach
Anagrams
en aacinoprst apocritans copartisan postcrania
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb es -. After John of Capistrano Saint John of Capestrano.
Pronunciation
ceb Ca pis tra no
kápistráno
Proper noun
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ceb Spanish
ceb male
Tagalog
Etymology
tl es -, in honor of St. John to Capestrano.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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tl Christian Spanish
Statistics
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