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Filetail vs Firetail - What's the difference?

filetail | firetail |

As an adjective filetail

is applied to various kinds of fish characterized by tails with toothlike grooves.

As a noun firetail is

any australian finch of the genus stagonopleura .

filetail

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by tails with toothlike grooves.

    • Derived terms

    * filetail fanskate * filetail catshark

    firetail

    English

    (wikipedia firetail) (Stagonopleura)

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia firetail)
  • Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura .
  • (UK, dialect) The European redstart.

    • Synonyms

    * (European redstart) fireflirt (Webster 1913)