tyrant flycatcher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a group of passerine birds, of family Tyrannidae, that inhabit the Americas.
    — 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.

词形变化

tyrant flycatchers plural

词源

The English name corresponds to translingual Tyrannidae, the taxonomic name. Tyrant flycatchers are so named because of the aggressive behavior of kingbirds (of genus Tyrannus, the type genus of the Tyrannidae) when defending their breeding territory.
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