flycatcher
English Thesaurus
1. large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | tyrannid, |
| definition | : | a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | kingbird, tyrannus tyrannus, |
| definition | : | large American flycatcher (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee, |
| definition | : | small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | phoebe, phoebe bird, sayornis phoebe, |
| definition | : | small dun-colored North American flycatcher (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | firebird, pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher, |
| definition | : | tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | muscivora-forficata, scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | superfamily tyrannidae, tyrannidae, |
| definition | : | New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada (noun.animal) |
2. any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | oscine, oscine bird, |
| definition | : | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | muscicapa grisola, muscicapa striata, spotted flycatcher, |
| definition | : | common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family muscicapidae, muscicapidae, |
| definition | : | Old World (true) flycatchers (noun.animal) |
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