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tyrant flycatchers

tyrant flycatchers is the plural 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

Questions about tyrant flycatchers

What is tyrant flycatchers the plural of?
Tyrant flycatchers is the plural of tyrant flycatcher.

Words near tyrant flycatchers in the dictionary

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

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