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AMERICAN WOODCOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
Synonyms:
American woodcock; Philohela minor; woodcock snipe
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("American woodcock" is a kind of...):
woodcock (game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)
Holonyms ("American woodcock" is a member of...):
genus Philohela; Philohela (American woodcocks)