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GENUS CONTOPUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pewees
Synonyms:
Contopus; genus Contopus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Contopus" is a kind of...):
bird genus (a genus of birds)
Meronyms (members of "genus Contopus"):
Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)
Holonyms ("genus 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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