English > tyrannid: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni. |
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| Member of | Tyranni, suborder Tyranni | New World flycatchers |
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| Narrower | New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
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| antbird, ant bird | Any of various dull / dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms |
| 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 |
| pitta | Any bird of the genus Pitta |
| woodhewer, woodcreeper, wood-creeper, tree creeper | Any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers |
| Broader | passerine, passeriform bird | perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch |
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