new world flycatcher

Questions about new world flycatcher

What does new world flycatcher mean?

new world flycatcher means "large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing".

What is another word for new world flycatcher?

Close synonyms include flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is new world flycatcher a common word?

new world flycatcher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.