MUSCIVORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Muscivora mean? 

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

1. a genus of Tyrannidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSCIVORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Tyrannidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Muscivora; Muscivora

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

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Muscivora"):

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 ("Muscivora" 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)