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    FLYCATCHER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wingplay

    Synonyms:

    flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    flycatcher; Old World flycatcher; true flycatcher

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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