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Scissorstail
- - A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
Scissortails
- 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
Scitamineous
- - Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Scitamineae), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
Sciuromorpha
- noun - large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.
Sclerenchyma
- - Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
Sclerogenous
- - Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
Sclerometers
- noun - a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point
Sclerotomies
- noun - surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye
Scolopacidae
- noun - sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers