| flycatcher | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. flycatcher, old world flycatcher, true flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing. |
| ~ oscine, oscine bird | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus. |
| ~ family muscicapidae, muscicapidae | Old World (true) flycatchers. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (animal) | 2. flycatcher, new world flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing. |
| ~ tyrannid | a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni. |
| ~ superfamily tyrannidae, tyrannidae | New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada. |
| ~ kingbird, tyrannus tyrannus | large American flycatcher. |
| ~ contopus virens, pewee, wood pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit | small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America. |
| ~ phoebe bird, sayornis phoebe, phoebe | small dun-colored North American flycatcher. |
| ~ pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher, firebird | tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage. |
| ~ cotinga, chatterer | 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. |
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