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PEEWIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Synonyms:
Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("peewit" is a kind of...):
flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peewit"):
Contopus sordidulus; western wood pewee (small flycatcher of western North America)
Holonyms ("peewit" is a member of...):
Contopus; genus Contopus (pewees)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
Synonyms:
green plover; lapwing; peewit; pewit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("peewit" is a kind of...):
plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)
Holonyms ("peewit" is a member of...):
genus Vanellus; Vanellus (Eurasian lapwings)
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