English > tyrant bird: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing. |
|---|
| Synonyms | New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher |
|---|
| Member of | Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae | New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada |
|---|
| Narrower | cotinga, chatterer | passerine bird of New World tropics |
|---|
| kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus | large American flycatcher |
| pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens | small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
| phoebe, phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe | small dun-colored North American flycatcher |
| scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficata | 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 |
| vermillion flycatcher, firebird, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus | Tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona |
| Broader | tyrannid | A passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni |
|---|
| Spanish | myiarchus |
|---|
