redtail

1. 1.

   dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail

   Synonymsred-tailed hawkButeo jamaicensis

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofButeo
2. 2.

   European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins

   Synonymsredstart

   Broaderthrush

   Part ofPhoenicurus

Other forms of redtail

plural

redtails·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about redtail

What does redtail mean?

redtail means "dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redtail?

redtail has 2 syllables: red-tail. The stress falls on "red".

What is another word for redtail?

Close synonyms include red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, redstart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is redtail a common word?

redtail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.