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SCISSORTAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scissortail mean?
• SCISSORTAIL (noun)
The noun SCISSORTAIL has 1 sense:
1. grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings
Familiarity information: SCISSORTAIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Muscivora-forficata; scissortail; scissortailed flycatcher
Hypernyms ("scissortail" is a kind of...):
flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)
Holonyms ("scissortail" is a member of...):
genus Muscivora; Muscivora (a genus of Tyrannidae)
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