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tyrant flycatcher (plural tyrant flycatchers)

1. Any of a group of passerine birds, of family Tyrannidae, that inhabit the Americas.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 64:

     In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.