flycatcher
Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia,…Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
» The flycatcher has ravaged the flies.
Meaning
3 sensesAny of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
Fliegenschnäpper
мухоловкаmuxolovka, мухое́дmuxojéd
large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.
A device for catching flies.
Examples
1 sentencesThe flycatcher has ravaged the flies.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From fly + catcher.From fly + catcher.
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Forms
plural: flycatchers| Singular | flycatcher |
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Synonyms
5 synonyms- large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing:New World flycatchertyrant flycatchertyrant bird
- any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing:Old World flycatchertrue flycatcher