单词 | tyrannid |
释义 | tyrannid (once / 2363863 pages) n WORD FAMILY tyrannid n a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni Hypo|Hyper New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing manakinany of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior ovenbirdsmall brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests ant bird, antbirdany of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodcreeper, woodhewerany of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers pittaany bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills Tyrannus tyrannus, kingbirdlarge American flycatcher Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood peweesmall olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America Sayornis phoebe, phoebe, phoebe birdsmall dun-colored North American flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, firebird, vermillion flycatchertropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage chatterer, cotingapasserine bird of New World tropics ant thrusha kind of antbird ant shrikeantbirds superficially resembling shrikes Hylophylax naevioides, spotted antbirda kind of antbird Muscivora-forficata, scissortail, scissortailed flycatchergrey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings passeriform bird, passerine perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless |
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