Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American bird of the family Tyrannidæ and genus Milvulus; a scissor-tailed flycatcher.
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- noun 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
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Examples
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Some common Great Plains animals, such as black-tailed jackrabbit and the scissortail flycatcher, range farther east through the Grand Prairie, creating an overlap in Great Plains and eastern forest species.
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Female scissortail sergeants gauge potential mates with a small batch of 'test' eggs before breeding with them, according to an ecologist.
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Female scissortail sergeants gauge potential mates with a small batch of 'test' eggs before breeding with them, according to an ecologist.
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Female scissortail sergeants gauge potential mates with a small batch of 'test' eggs before breeding with them, according to an ecologist.
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a golden meadowlark, then a darker scissortail snipping the air off behind it in swift flight.
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