scissorstail

English

Etymology

scissors +‎ tail

Noun

scissorstail (plural scissorstails)

1. A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the southern United States and Mexico, with a deeply forked tail, and coloured fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scissorstail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• scissortails