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rackettail

rackettail is the alternative form of racket-tail.

Meaning of racket-tail

Noun

racket-tail (plural racket-tails)

  1. Any of several species of hummingbirds of the genera Ocreatus and Loddigesia (formerly Steganura or Spathura), having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.
  2. Prioniturus spp., parrots with similar tails.

Forms of rackettail

pluralrackettails

Questions about rackettail

What is rackettail the alternative form of?
Rackettail is the alternative form of racket-tail.

Words near rackettail in the dictionary

  1. racketings
  2. racketlike
  3. racketry
  4. rackets
  5. rackett
  6. rackettail
  7. rackettails
  8. racketts
  9. rackety
  10. rackety-clackety
  11. rackful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rackettail (page history and authors); racket-tail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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