muscicapid
/ˌmʌskɪˈkapɪd/ /məˈsɪkəpɪd/Zoology
noun
A bird of the family Muscicapidae; especially an Old World flycatcher.
- The family Muscicapidae contains the Old World flycatchers, but is sometimes taken (e.g. in J. L. Peters Check-list Birds of World (1931–87)) to encompass several other groups otherwise treated as separate families, including the Turdidae (thrushes), Sylviidae (Old World warblers), and Monarchidae (monarch flycatchers)..
adjective
Of or belonging to the family Muscicapidae.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Isaac Funk (1839–1912), publisher and reformer. From scientific Latin Muscicapidae, family name from Muscicapa + -idae, after French Muscicapidées.
- the heavens open
- the heavy mob
- the Herdsman
- the high ground
- the Highlands
- the Holy City
- the Holy Grail
- the Holy Sacrament
- the Holy Trinity
- the Horn
- the House
- the Household
- the how and why
- the Hun
- the Hunter
- the hustings
- the hyaline
- the I
- the Ice Age
- the icing (also frosting) on the cake
- the Incarnation
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- the Inquisition
- the ins and outs