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scissors-tailed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English

Syllables
scis-sors--tailed
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a long, forked tail, with the outer tail feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

scissor-tailed (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

scissortail swallowtailed

Questions

What does scissors-tailed mean?
Having a long, forked tail, with the outer tail feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

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