tyrant flycatcher

tyrant flycatcher

n.

See flycatcher.

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tyrant flycatcher

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any passerine bird of the American family Tyrannidae Often shortened to flycatcher

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Noun

1.

tyrant flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, 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