Definitions for tyrant flycatcher

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ty′rant fly′catcher(n.)

  1. Category: Ornithology

    Ref: flycatcher (def. 1). 2

Origin of tyrant flycatcher:

1775–85

Princeton's WordNet

  1. New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird(noun)

    large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

Wiktionary

  1. tyrant flycatcher(Noun)

    any of a group of passerine birds, of family Tyrannidae, that inhabit the Americas


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