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SCISSORTAILED FLYCATCHER

• SCISSORTAILED FLYCATCHER (noun)
The noun SCISSORTAILED FLYCATCHER 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 markings

Familiarity information: SCISSORTAILED FLYCATCHER used as a noun is very rare.

• SCISSORTAILED FLYCATCHER (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 markings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Muscivora-forficata; scissortail; scissortailed flycatcher

Hypernyms ("scissortailed flycatcher" is a kind of...):

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)

Holonyms ("scissortailed flycatcher" is a member of...):

genus Muscivora; Muscivora (a genus of Tyrannidae)

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Useful links:
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Definition of genus Muscivora
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Definition of New World flycatcher

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