HyperDic: scissortail

English > 1 sense of the word scissortail:
NOUNanimalscissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficatagrey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings
English > scissortail: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningGrey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings.
Synonymsscissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficata
Member ofMuscivora, genus MuscivoraA genus of Tyrannidae
BroaderNew World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant birdlarge American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

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