Associations to the word «Flycatcher»

Wiktionary

FLYCATCHER, noun. Any of many kinds of birds, of the families Muscicapidae (in Europe and Asia) and Tyrannidae (in the Americas), that catch insects in flight.

Dictionary definition

FLYCATCHER, noun. Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing.
FLYCATCHER, noun. Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats