firetail

English

A male beautiful firetail (Stagonopleura bella)

Wikispecies

Etymology

fire +‎ tail

Noun

firetail (plural firetails)

1. Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura.
2. (UK, dialect) The European redstart.

Synonyms

• (European redstart): fireflirt

Derived terms

• beautiful firetail
• diamond firetail
• red-eared firetail

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “firetail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)