scissor-bill

See also: scissorbill

English

Noun

scissor-bill (plural scissor-bills)

(zoology) Alternative form of scissorbill.
- 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
  Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.