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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 markingsplay

  Familiarity information: SCISSORTAIL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCISSORTAIL (noun)


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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