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tyrant-flycatcher

tyrant-flycatcher is the alternative spelling of tyrant flycatcher.

Meaning of tyrant flycatcher

Noun

tyrant flycatcher (plural tyrant flycatchers)

  1. Any of a group of passerine birds, of family Tyrannidae, that inhabit the Americas.
    • In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 64

Forms of tyrant-flycatcher

pluraltyrant-flycatchers

Questions about tyrant-flycatcher

What is tyrant-flycatcher the alternative spelling of?
Tyrant-flycatcher is the alternative spelling of tyrant flycatcher.

Words near tyrant-flycatcher in the dictionary

  1. tyranny of the masses
  2. tyrans
  3. tyrant
  4. tyrant flycatcher
  5. tyrant flycatchers
  6. tyrant-flycatcher
  7. tyrant-flycatchers
  8. tyrant-manakin
  9. tyrant-manakins
  10. tyranted
  11. tyrantess

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