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sheartail

noun

Etymology

From shear + tail.

  1. derived from *deḱ-✻
  2. derived from *doḱ-✻
  3. inherited from *taglą✻
  4. inherited from *tagl✻
  5. inherited from tæġl
  6. inherited from tail
  7. compounded as sheartail — “shear + tail”

Definitions

  1. The common tern, Sterna hirundo.

  2. A hummingbird of any of several species of the genus Thaumastura, having a long forked…

    A hummingbird of any of several species of the genus Thaumastura, having a long forked tail.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA