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    SCISSORTAIL

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 markingsplay

    Synonyms:

    Muscivora-forficata; scissortail; scissortailed flycatcher

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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