sprig tail

Questions about sprig tail

What is another word for sprig tail?

It depends which sprig tail you mean. In the sense “large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America”, the synonyms are sharp-tailed grouse, sprigtail, Pedioecetes phasianellus. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sprig tail?

WordNet records no antonym for sprig tail. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sprig tail come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sprig tail

• Full entry for sprig tailAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sprig tailWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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