tyrannid

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

tyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni passeriform bird, passerine - perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless 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 manakin - any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior ovenbird - small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests ant bird, antbird - any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms wood-creeper, woodcreeper, woodhewer, tree creeper - any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers pitta - any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills