flycatcher

fly·catch·er  (flkchr, -kch-)

n.

1. Any of various Eurasian birds of the family Muscicapidae that feed on insects, usually catching the insects in flight.

2. Any of various similar American birds of the family Tyrannidae. Also called tyrant flycatcher.

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flycatcher

Noun

a small insect-eating songbird

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Noun	1.	flycatcher - any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus family Muscicapidae, Muscicapidae - Old World (true) flycatchers Muscicapa grisola, Muscicapa striata, spotted flycatcher - common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage thickhead, whistler - Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
	2.	flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher 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 kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus - large American flycatcher Contopus virens, pewee, wood pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe, phoebe - small dun-colored North American flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher, firebird - tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage cotinga, chatterer - 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