kingbird
nounEtymology From king + bird.
1
Any of various large insectivorous tyrant-flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus.
2
Obsolete A king bird of paradise.
- After the first king-bird was obtained, I went with my men into the forest, and we were not only rewarded with another in equally perfect plumage, but I was enabled to see a little of the habits of both it and the larger species.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 224:
- Derived terms
- loggerhead kingbird