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scissor-tailed

scissor-tailed is the alternative form of scissors-tailed.

Meaning of scissors-tailed

Adjective

scissors-tailed (not comparable)

  1. Having a long, forked tail, with the outer tail feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
    • scissors-tailed kite

Phrases with scissor-tailed

Questions about scissor-tailed

What is scissor-tailed the alternative form of?
Scissor-tailed is the alternative form of scissors-tailed.

Words near scissor-tailed in the dictionary

  1. scissor tooth
  2. scissor-bill
  3. scissor-bills
  4. scissor-congruent
  5. scissor-like
  6. scissor-tailed
  7. scissor-tailed flycatcher
  8. scissor-tailed flycatchers
  9. scissorable
  10. scissorbill
  11. scissorbills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scissor-tailed (page history and authors); scissors-tailed (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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