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CONTOPUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pewees

Synonyms:

Contopus; genus Contopus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Contopus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Contopus"):

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)

Holonyms ("Contopus" is a member of...):

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)

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