tyrant flycatcher

Questions about tyrant flycatcher

What does tyrant flycatcher mean?

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

What is another word for tyrant flycatcher?

Close synonyms include New World flycatcher, 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 tyrant flycatcher a common word?

tyrant 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.