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WOODCOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("woodcock" is a kind of...):
limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodcock"):
Eurasian woodcock; Scolopax rusticola (short-legged long-billed migratory Old World woodcock)
American woodcock; Philohela minor; woodcock snipe (small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird)