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scissorbill

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scissorbill noun

  1. (southeastern US) A thin feral pig.
  2. The rorqual or finback whale.

scissorbill noun

  1. A fool, an incompetent; a yokel, a hick.
  2. A foolish worker who lacks class consciousness and opposes unions; also, a company man, a drone, .

scissorbill noun

  1. A device that skims.
  2. A person who skims.
  3. Any of three species of bird in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
  4. Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clams and large scallops.

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scissorbillscissor-billscissorsbillskimmerafrican skim…indian skimm…shearbillblack skimmerscythebillscrub birdscissorbill

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