TYRANNID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tyrannid mean? 

• TYRANNID (noun)
  The noun TYRANNID has 1 sense:

1. a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni

  Familiarity information: TYRANNID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYRANNID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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)

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

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant 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)

tree creeper; wood-creeper; woodcreeper; woodhewer (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)

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

suborder Tyranni; Tyranni (New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers)