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GENUS MUSCIVORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Muscivora mean? 

GENUS MUSCIVORA (noun)
  The noun GENUS MUSCIVORA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Tyrannidaeplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS MUSCIVORA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MUSCIVORA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Tyrannidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Muscivora; Muscivora

Hypernyms ("genus Muscivora" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Muscivora"):

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 ("genus Muscivora" 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)


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