Flycatcher

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flycatcher \Fly"catch`er\, n. (Zool.)
     One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects,
     which they take on the wing.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The true flycatchers of the Old World are Oscines, and


           belong to the family {Muscicapid[ae]}, as the spotted
           flycatcher ({Muscicapa grisola}). The American
           flycatchers, or tyrant flycatchers, are Clamatores, and
           belong to the family {Tyrannid[ae]}, as the kingbird,
           pewee, crested flycatcher ({Myiarchus crinitus}), and
           the vermilion flycatcher or churinche ({Pyrocephalus
           rubineus}). Certain American flycatching warblers of
           the family {Sylvicolid[ae]} are also called
           flycatchers, as the Canadian flycatcher ({Sylvania
           Canadensis}), and the hooded flycatcher ({S. mitrata}).
           See {Tyrant flycatcher}.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flycatcher
       n 1: any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects
            taken on the wing [syn: {Old World flycatcher}, {true
            flycatcher}]
       2: large American birds that characteristically catch insects
          on the wing [syn: {New World flycatcher}, {tyrant
          flycatcher}, {tyrant bird}]