scissor-tailed
- adjective
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de cola en tijera
- The scissor-tailed flycatcher's tail spread wide as it danced in the air, a true sight to behold.
- scissor-tailed flycatcher
Examples
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On a warm spring day, I spotted a scissor-tailed flycatcher gracefully fluttering between the trees.
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"That," he said importantly, "is a scissor-tailed nut-chatcher."
Fiction book (1999) -
When the water level dropped, Stovall and his co-workers drew up the blueprints for the large scissor-tailed flycatcher made out of stone.
Blog text (21) -
He was rich compared to us, even though he sent us checks and paid for our private schools, and now that we were gone, and Mama worked on her own at the telephone company, he had even nicer things like a smooth and shiny telescope on his patio for looking at the Big Dipper on a black night or watching sparrows and scissor-tailed flycatchers during the day.
Fiction book (1995) -
While hiking through the park, we were delighted to observe a scissor-tailed flycatcher soaring above us.
Synonyms
Having a deep forked tail like a small bird
How Forked
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4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scissor-tailed joins scissor, the tool with two blades, and tailed meaning 'having a tail', so imagine a bird's tail opening like a pair of scissors. That's why a scissor-tailed bird has a long tail split into two parts that look like the blades of scissors.