Noun | 1. | ![]() bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings suborder Tyranni, Tyranni - New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing genus Tyrannus, Tyrannus - type genus of the Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers Contopus, genus Contopus - pewees genus Sayornis, Sayornis - phoebes genus Pyrocephalus, Pyrocephalus - a genus of Tyrannidae Cotingidae, family Cotingidae - cotingas; umbrella birds family Pittidae, Pittidae - pittas genus Muscivora, Muscivora - a genus of Tyrannidae |