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scissors-tailed

scissors-tailed adjective: having a long, forked tail, with the outer tail feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

scissors-tailed: having a long, forked tail, with the outer tail feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing...
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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
    • scissors-tailed flycatcher

Forms of scissors-tailed

alternative formscissor-tailed

Questions about scissors-tailed

What does scissors-tailed mean?
Scissors-tailed means having a long, forked tail, with the outer tail feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
What part of speech is scissors-tailed?
Scissors-tailed is an adjective.

Words near scissors-tailed in the dictionary

  1. scissors paper rock
  2. scissors paper stone
  3. scissors-and-paste
  4. scissors-congruent
  5. scissors-glasses
  6. scissors-tailed
  7. scissorsbill
  8. scissorsbills
  9. scissorsed
  10. scissorses
  11. scissorsing

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