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scissortail

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scis·sor·tail  (szr-tl)
n.
A scissor-tailed flycatcher.
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Noun1.scissortail - grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markingsscissortail - 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
New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
genus Muscivora, Muscivora - a genus of Tyrannidae


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