flycatcher : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus).

Webster 1913

• noun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
  flycatcher; tyrant bird; New World flycatcher.
  

WordNet

• noun any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
  Old World flycatcher; flycatcher.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), any flycatcher of the genus Terpsiphone, having the middle tail feathers extremely elongated. The adult male of T. paradisi is white, with the head glossy dark green, and crested.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.

Webster 1913

• noun 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
  Muscivora-forficata; scissortail.
  

WordNet

• noun common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage
  Muscicapa striata; Muscicapa grisola.
  

WordNet

• noun any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
  Old World flycatcher; flycatcher.
  

WordNet

• noun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
  flycatcher; tyrant bird; New World flycatcher.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of tyrants which have a flattened bill, toothed at the tip, and resemble the true flycatchers in habits. The Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax Acadicus) and the vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubineus) are examples.

Webster 1913

• noun tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage
  Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus; firebird.
  

WordNet

• a true flycatcher (Sauloprocta motacilloides) common in Southern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; called also black fantail.

Webster 1913