Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scissortail

1 sense of scissortail

Sense 1
scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficata -- (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)
       => New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird -- (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)