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Flycatcher

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
  2. 2
    large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing wordnet
  3. 3
    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.
  4. 4
    any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing wordnet
  5. 5
    A device for catching flies.

    "Stewart appeared anxious to get all information in connection with a fly-catcher on the counter."

Etymology

From fly + catcher.

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