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TYRANT FLYCATCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tyrant flycatcher mean? 

TYRANT FLYCATCHER (noun)
  The noun TYRANT FLYCATCHER has 1 sense:

1. large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wingplay

  Familiarity information: TYRANT FLYCATCHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TYRANT FLYCATCHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher

Hypernyms ("tyrant flycatcher" is a kind of...):

tyrannid (a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tyrant flycatcher"):

kingbird; Tyrannus tyrannus (large American flycatcher)

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)

phoebe; phoebe bird; Sayornis phoebe (small dun-colored North American flycatcher)

firebird; Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus; vermillion flycatcher (tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage)

chatterer; cotinga (passerine bird of New World tropics)

Muscivora-forficata; scissortail; scissortailed flycatcher (grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings)

Holonyms ("tyrant flycatcher" is a member of...):

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


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