FLYCATCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flycatcher mean? 

• FLYCATCHER (noun)
  The noun FLYCATCHER has 2 senses:

1. any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing

2. large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

  Familiarity information: FLYCATCHER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYCATCHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flycatcher; Old World flycatcher; true flycatcher

Hypernyms ("flycatcher" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flycatcher"):

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)

Holonyms ("flycatcher" is a member of...):

family Muscicapidae; Muscicapidae (Old World (true) flycatchers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher

Hypernyms ("flycatcher" is a kind of...):

tyrannid (a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flycatcher"):

kingbird; Tyrannus tyrannus (large American flycatcher)

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)

phoebe; phoebe bird; Sayornis phoebe (small dun-colored North American flycatcher)

firebird; Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus; vermillion flycatcher (tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage)

chatterer; cotinga (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)

Holonyms ("flycatcher" is a member of...):

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)