Tyranni

noun

New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers

• Syn: ↑suborder Tyranni

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Passeriformes, ↑order Passeriformes

• Member Meronyms:

↑tyrannid, ↑Tyrannidae, ↑superfamily Tyrannidae, ↑Pipridae, ↑family Pipridae, ↑Furnariidae, ↑family Furnariidae, ↑Formicariidae, ↑family Formicariidae, ↑Dendrocolaptidae, ↑family Dendrocolaptidae

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\\tə̇ˈraˌnī, -a(ˌ)nē; tīˈraˌnī\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, plural of tyrannus tyrant

: a suborder of Passeriformes that comprises birds possessing little power of song and having the tendon of the hind toe separate and the intrinsic muscles of the syrinx reduced to usually one pair the ends of which are inserted on the sides instead of the tips of its cartilaginous semirings and that includes the So. American antbirds, oven birds, and woodhewers together with the tyrant flycatchers and related birds of both hemispheres