thorntail

English

A green thorntail (Discosura conversii)

Etymology

thorn +‎ tail

Noun

thorntail (plural thorntails)

1. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Discosura.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thorntail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• thorntail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Discosura on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• triathlon