TYRANNI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tyranni mean? 

• TYRANNI (noun)
  The noun TYRANNI has 1 sense:

1. New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers

  Familiarity information: TYRANNI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYRANNI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

suborder Tyranni; Tyranni

Hypernyms ("Tyranni" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Tyranni"):

tyrannid (a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni)

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)

family Pipridae; Pipridae (manakins)

family Furnariidae; Furnariidae (e.g. ovenbirds)

family Formicariidae; Formicariidae (antbirds)

Dendrocolaptidae; family Dendrocolaptidae (woodhewers or woodcreepers)

Holonyms ("Tyranni" is a member of...):

order Passeriformes; Passeriformes (largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres)