flycatcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fly + catcher.
Compound parts: fly
catcher
Inflected forms:
form: flycatchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for catching flies.
pos: noun
examples: Stewart appeared anxious to get all information in connection with a fly-catcher on the counter.
He has a patent revolving fly-catcher on the counter.
The flies worried me when I was writing the other day. I put up a vampire flycatcher on my desk. One stuck to it, and I watched it struggling.
A flycatcher, one of the sticky sort you pull out of a cylinder, will keep safes and cupboards free from ants.
Derived words: Acadian flycatcher
ash-throated flycatcher
Asian brown flycatcher
Atlas flycatcher
Atlas pied flycatcher
black-billed flycatcher
black-capped flycatcher
black-tailed flycatcher
blue-and-white flycatcher
blue flycatcher
blue-throated flycatcher
boat-billed flycatcher
broad-billed flycatcher
brown-breasted flycatcher
brown-crested flycatcher
canary-flycatcher
collared flycatcher
dark-sided flycatcher
dull blue flycatcher
dusky-capped flycatcher
European pied flycatcher
European spotted flycatcher
fairy flycatcher
ferruginous flycatcher
flycatcher-shrike
fork-tailed flycatcher
green-backed flycatcher
grey-capped flycatcher
grey-streaked flycatcher
Hainan blue flycatcher
indigo flycatcher
Kashmir flycatcher
leaden flycatcher
least flycatcher
lemon-bellied flycatcher
little pied flycatcher
mangrove blue flycatcher
mariqua flycatcher
monarch flycatcher
mugimaki flycatcher
narcissus flycatcher
New World flycatcher
Nilgiri flycatcher
Old World flycatcher
olive-sided flycatcher
pale blue flycatcher
paperbark flycatcher
paradise flycatcher
piratic flycatcher
puffback flycatcher
red-breasted flycatcher
restless flycatcher
royal flycatcher
ruddy-tailed flycatcher
rufous-gorgeted flycatcher
rusty-tailed flycatcher
satin flycatcher
scissor-tailed flycatcher
semi-collared flycatcher
shining flycatcher
shrike-flycatcher
silky-flycatcher
snowy-browed flycatcher
social flycatcher
spotted flycatcher
streaked flycatcher
taiga flycatcher
tit-flycatcher
tody-flycatcher
Traill's flycatcher
true flycatcher
tufted flycatcher
tyrant flycatcher
ultramarine flycatcher
verditer flycatcher
vermilion flycatcher
white-tailed blue flycatcher
yellow-bellied flycatcher
yellow flycatcher
yellowish flycatcher
yellow-olive flycatcher
yellow-rumped flycatcher
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: mosqueru
lang: Belarusian
word: валасянка
roman: valasjanka
lang: Catalan
word: papamosques
lang: Catalan
word: mastegatatxes
lang: Czech
word: lejsek
lang: Dutch
word: vliegenvanger
lang: Finnish
word: sieppo
lang: Finnish
word: tyranni
lang: French
word: gobemouche
lang: German
word: Fliegenschnäpper
lang: Italian
word: muscicapide
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Méckefänkert
lang: Romanian
word: muscar
lang: Russian
word: мухоловка
roman: muxolovka
lang: Russian
word: мухое́д
roman: muxojéd
lang: Inari-Sami
word: livkkár
lang: Northern Sami
word: livkkár
lang: Spanish
word: papamoscas
lang: Swedish
word: flugsnappare
lang: Welsh
word: gwybedog