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Webster 1913 Edition


Sheartail

Shear′tailˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
The common tern.
(b)
Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus
Thaumastura
having a long forked tail.

Definition 2024


sheartail

sheartail

English

Noun

sheartail (plural sheartails)

  1. The common tern, Sterna hirundo.
  2. A hummingbird of any of several species of the genus Thaumastura, having a long forked tail.